Final Thoughts

Since President Trump’s second term began, it often feels like there is breaking steel news every week late on Friday or over the weekend. And last week was no different.

The subject of the breaking news this time: U.S. Steel’s Granite City Works. Which got me to thinking, it also feels like I’ve been writing about a few subjects an awful lot for much of the last decade. Among them: Section 232, U.S. Steel, and Granite City. But more on that in a moment.

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.

Michael Cowden

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