Joe Anselmo

Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network

Washington, DC

Summary

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Under his leadership, Aviation Week has won numerous accolades for its in-depth reporting and deep dives into aerospace technology, including the 2017 Grand Neal award for “Top Brand/Overall Editorial Excellence,” business-to-business journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Writers from the Aviation Week Network also took home six honors at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards in London.

In 2015, Anselmo and his team spearheaded a digital initiative that provides subscribers with fresh content every day via mobile phones, tablets, or desktop computers. To mark Aviation Week’s 100th anniversary in 2016, the publication’s entire archive – more than 440,000 pages of articles, images, covers and advertisements – was digitized into a searchable online archive. Aviation Week also has accelerated its push into digital media with regular podcasts, videos, data features, infographics and eBooks.

Anselmo has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter with Aviation Week, Congressional Quarterly and the Washington Post Company. He has won three Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected three times to the National Press Club’s Board of Governors, including one term as board chairman.

 

Articles

Joseph C. Anselmo (Montreal and Toronto )
Five years ago, regional jet pioneer Bombardier Aerospace was desperately seeking a comeback. Soaring fuel prices had made its 50-seat RJs uneconomical to operate. Rival Embraer was rolling out a family of newer and more spacious “E-Jets” in the 70-120-seat market. And the Canadian airframer’s proposal to move upmarket with an uninspiring new family of larger jets dubbed the “CSeries” was widely panned by analysts and investors.

Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil), Joseph C. Anselmo (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil)
Embraer President/CEO Frederico Fleury Curado spoke with AW&ST Editor-in-Chief Anthony L. Velocci, Jr., and Senior Business Editor Joseph C. Anselmo at the company’s headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. AW&ST: You are facing a future marked by more competition: China, Japan, a resurgent Bombardier. How is this prospect influencing Embraer’s strategic planning?

Joseph C. Anselmo (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil ), Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil )
There are a lot of ghosts in the civil aircraft industry. Companies that have left the business or been acquired in recent decades include such names as McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, Fokker, Saab, Fairchild and British Aerospace. But the list of brand-new companies that entered the passenger aircraft market after Airbus in 1970 and thrived contains but one name: Embraer.