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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JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
XM Satellite Radio, a venture that plans to provide digital radio service to U.S. consumers from a pair of powerful satellites, has signed up a group of new partners that are investing $250 million in the project. General Motors and DirecTV have agreed to invest $50 million each in the company, which hopes to launch its Hughes HS-702 spacecraft in late-2000 and early-2001 to offer 100 channels of digital radio programming to subscribers using special radios.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
An astronomy satellite designed to uncover clues about the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe 12 billion years ago is being readied at Cape Canaveral for launch next week. The NASA-backed Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) project is to study light in the far-ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (around 90-120 nanometers) with unprecedented sensitivity and resolving power. Launch of the 3,000 lb. (1,360 kg.) satellite is scheduled for launch June 23 on a Delta II booster.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO, ROBERT WALL and JAMES R. ASKERWASHINGTON
On Jan. 3, the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns With the People's Republic of China sent 38 recommendations to President Clinton and Congress. Some have already been implemented. Here is a summary and explanation of the recommendations: Nuclear Weapons 1. The President should report to congressional leaders semiannually on Chinese espionage and the steps being taken to prevent it. 2. The Energy Dept. should urgently implement a counterintelligence program.