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

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Production of U.S. hardware for the international space station has hit its peak, posing a rising challenge to NASA managers to keep the project's assembly schedule on track. With work on key U.S. components well into the manufacturing and testing stages, NASA engineers have found themselves having to overcome a variety of obstacles, ranging from a need to redesign components in the station's advanced power system to contractor bottlenecks in delivering simple but vital hardware such as cable connectors.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
An intelligence community veteran who directed U.S. spy satellite efforts until earlier this year has been tapped to run a venture that plans to sell high resolution satellite imagery on the commercial market.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
National Reconnaissance Office managers have dropped opposition to downsizing their spacecraft in the wake of a high-level panel's conclusion that future U.S. intelligence satellites should be dramatically smaller. Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch's advisory panel said the NRO should break up the multiple tasks performed by the agency's expensive, highly capable satellites. The tasks would be divided among larger numbers of spacecraft that would be smaller and less capable.