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.

 

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Articles

Guy Norris, with Anthony L. Velocci Jr. and Joseph C. Anselmo
General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) expects to get the go-ahead from FAA to start tests of the stealthy, turbofan-powered unmanned Predator C Avenger at the U.S. Air Force’s Edwards Air Force Base test range in California.

Joseph C. Anselmo
LOS ANGELES — AeroVironment’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) campus northwest of Los Angeles is proof that innovation and entrepreneurship are still thriving in some corners of the aerospace and defense industry. The 700-employee company has fielded a line of small, remotely piloted aircraft — one weighs just 1 lb. — that easily fit into a soldier’s backpack. Switchblade, a new kamikaze UAS, is designed to dive into “soft targets,” such as a truck carrying enemy combatants, and blow up.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Los Angeles)
AeroVironment Inc.’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) campus northwest of Los Angeles is proof that innovation and entrepreneurship are still thriving in some corners of the aerospace and defense industry. The 700-employee company has fielded a line of small, remotely piloted aircraft—one weighs just 1 lb.—that easily fit into a soldier’s backpack. Switchblade, a new kamikaze UAS, is designed to dive into “soft targets,” such as a truck carrying enemy combatants, and blow up.