Over 90 Years of Editorial Excellence

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Editorial Leadership Team

Tony is the editorial leader of Aviation Week products and services as well as the Editor-In-Chief of the flagship, Aviation Week & Space Technology. Prior to his appointment to the magazine's top editorial post, he was Northeast Bureau Chief and Senior Business Editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Tony joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in 1989 as Editor-in-Chief of Defense World magazine. He has received numerous journalism awards, including The McGraw-Hill Companies' Corporate Achievement Award for Editorial Excellence and the Royal Aeronautical Society's 2002 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award (business/financial category) and 2006 award (air show category). Tony worked for a variety of business, financial and defense related publications before joining Aviation Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and a member of the board of advisors of the University of Tennessee's Aerospace M.B.A. program.

Jim is Executive Editor of Aviation Week group and Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. He has covered aerospace for more than 20 years and won numerous awards for his reporting and commentary. He directed Aviation Week's coverage of the Columbia space shuttle accident, which was recognized with a 2004 Jesse H. Neal Award, the trade press equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and was finalist in 2005 and 2012. And in 2006, Jim won Journalist of the Year honors from the Royal Aeronautical Society and has twice won a McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Award. Jim began covering space programs as a science reporter for The Houston Post, where he led the paper's prize-winning coverage of the Challenger shuttle accident and its aftermath and was a finalist in NASA’s Journalist In Space program. Jim is a graduate of Rice University and was a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT and Harvard, his studies included arms control, the Soviet military and U.S. defense planning and budgeting.

Jim Mathews, a 24-year McGraw-Hill veteran, is Executive Editor of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network and Senior Director for Digital Editorial at Aviation Week. Previously, Mathews oversaw introduction of digital content tools to Aviation Week, and spent eight years as Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Daily, the worldwide business daily of the airline industry since 1939. He also developed and managed the news staff of the Aviation Week Group's private-online and open web portals, recruiting and leading a news team which won the 2006 Neal Award for best business news website. The Syracuse, N.Y., native has been a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, working in radio, magazines and daily trade journalism, and attended School of Visual Arts in New York. He has also been a volunteer firefighter/paramedic for 13 years in Fairfax County, Va., as well as a Civil Air Patrol mission aircrew member.

Based in Washington, Joe manages a team of seven writing editors in the U.S., Europe and China. He also oversees Aviation Week’s business coverage and writes the weekly Up Front commentary in Aviation Week & Space Technology. Anselmo has worked at Aviation Week since 2004 and spent an earlier tour from 1993-2000 as AW&ST’s space technology editor and as a beat reporter for Aerospace Daily. From 2000-04 he covered defense issues from Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly and served as managing editor of Washington Technology, a technology business magazine published by the Washington Post Co. He has won three Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards for his reporting, most recently in 2010. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected three times to the National Press Club’s Board of Governors and served as board chairman.

Michael is the Deputy Managing Editor for Defense and also covers national security policymaking, budgets and congressional affairs. Prior to coming to Aviation Week in 2005, Michael was a reporter for Washington Post and BNA publications covering technology, business and federal acquisition. He received a master's in print journalism from Syracuse University in 1998, and a bachelor's in philosophy, psychology and communications studies from Vanderbilt University in 1997.

Lee Ann directs Aviation Week's team covering airlines, business aviation, air traffic management and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO). She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Overhaul & Maintenance, has been an aviation journalist for more than 20 years. She serves on Aviation Week's MRO Conference editorial boards. In 2002, Lee Ann won the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in the maintenance category and has been a finalist in other years. She holds a B.A. in English and political science from Luther College and an M.A. in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.

Bill is Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation. Previously, he served as Managing Editor of Aviation Week Television. Before joining the McGraw-Hill Companies, he was the top editor for both Flying and Professional Pilot magazines, as well as a member of the senior editorial staff at Reader's Digest. He managed communications for FlightSafety International. Bill has authored or co-authored three aviation books, was an essayist for National Public Radio, wrote aviation documentaries for The Discovery Channel, and served as host of "Aviator's World," a cable television series. During his stewardship at Business & Commercial Aviation, the monthly magazine has received dozens of awards for editorial excellence. Bill is an active pilot with a Commercial license; he also holds multiengine, instrument, seaplane and glider ratings.

Bill has been an aerospace journalist for more than 35 years. Prior to joining Aviation Week, he contributed to most of the industry's leading trade publications and has published more than 30 books. He is frequently cited as an authority on technical issues - stealth technology in particular - by US and international media. One of Bill's books was the subject of a high-priority translation effort by the Soviet GRU technical intelligence service, and his work is heavily cited in a declassified CIA report on media coverage of stealth. Bill was a consultant to an Emmy-winning PBS documentary on the Joint Strike Fighter competition, and was invited to participate in AIAA's Distinguished Lecturer Program. He received Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

Frank Jackman joined Aviation Week in 1987, and is recognized by industry for his expertise in the commercial aviation and maintenance, repair and overhaul. In 1995, Frank won the Eugene Dubois Award for journalism excellence from the North American Airline Public Relations Association and twice has been part of teams that have won Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill. Prior to joining the McGraw-Hill Companies, he was a reporter for the Tampa Tribune. Frank received a B.A. in journalism from Washington & Lee University.

Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism for more than a decade. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

Based in London, Robert oversees - Aviation Week editorial operations in Europe and Asia. Prior to assuming that role, he covered the Pentagon for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and served as Paris Bureau Chief. Robert covered the Kosovo, Afghanistan and 2003 Iraq wars, including participating in various missions on reconnaissance and command and control aircraft, as well as helicopters. Before joining Aviation Week, he compiled and served as managing editor for the Worldwide Directory of Defense Authorities. Robert holds an M.A. in international relations from the George Washington University.

Graham Warwick leads our coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense. Born and educated in Scotland, he graduated in aeronautical engineering and worked in advanced design at Hawker Siddeley Aviation in the UK before becoming an aerospace journalist. Before joining Aviation Week in April 2008, he spent almost 30 years with weekly aerospace news magazine Flight International, most recently as Americas Editor based in the U.S. Graham is a winner of the Decade of Excellence award for aviation journalism, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Guy is Senior Editor for Aviation Week. Guy was previously with Flight International, first as technical editor based in the U.K. and most recently as U.S. West Coast editor. Before joining Flight, he was London correspondent for Interavia, part of Jane's Information Group. Guy is a multiple winner of the Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in the Air Transport, Propulsion and Systems/Technology categories, and in 2006 he received the Royal Aeronautical Society Decade of Excellence Award for sustained achievement in aerospace journalism. Amongst other works Guy has authored the aerospace section of a science encyclopedia and co-authored, and produced an educational aviation CD-ROM. Guy has authored more than a dozen books on the air transport industry and been honored with several journalism awards including the several books on the histories of Airbus, Boeing and other airframe manufacturers.

John has led Aviation Week's ShowNews, the best-read daily news magazine of aerospace trade shows, for nearly two decades. His background in business journalism before joining Aviation Week includes stints Reuters, the American Banker daily banking newspaper and as business news editor at the Milwaukee Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer. A lifelong aviation enthusiast, John has been a private pilot for 34 years and won an award at EAA Oshkosh for his restoration of a vintage British Auster army spotter aircraft. He is currently building a 1920s Staaken Flitzer biplane from plans. John attended his first Farnborough Air Show in 1952, when just eight months old!

Ed has spent more than 20 years reporting on aviation, aerospace and defense. Currently he organizes aviation/aerospace conferences in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has been chief correspondent for a national television news program devoted to aviation and wrote extensively on aerospace in Russia and China and ballistic missile defense in the U.S. Ed does significant public speaking at aviation and aerospace events and conferences around the world. He has won numerous awards in journalism, including the International Award for Best Continuing Coverage of a news story by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Associated Press Regional Broadcast Award for coverage of the Walker espionage case, and Best Individual Effort by a Reporter from Associated Press for uncovering fraud, waste and abuse in Virginia government. Ed received his B.S. mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Commercial Aviation Editorial Team - Frank Jackman, Team Leader

Business Aviation Editorial Team - William Garvey, Team Leader

Defense, Space and Security Editorial Team - Michael Bruno, Team Leader