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

Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
After a year of global recession, and with its premier airplane development programs in intensive care, Boeing is acknowledging that it is time to address another thorny issue—strategic planning for two programs that set delivery records last year, the 737 and 777. Signaling the company’s highest priority, CEO James McNerney says “some pretty detailed thinking” is underway on production alternatives for the 737, which accounts for about 70% of Boeing’s orders.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Boeing’s defense unit notched its biggest sales gain in several years in 2009, but the company expects to give much of it back as cuts to missile defense and the now-defunct Future Combat Systems program begin to bite.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Michael Mecham
Boeing expects its sales to decline as much as 6% this year as the impact of lower 777 production rates and cuts to military programs sink in. But it also sees a rebound in 2011 as deliveries of new 787 and 747-8 jets begin to ramp up.