Ancora Wants to Make US Steel Great Again

Ancora Wants to Make US Steel Great Again
A portion of U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pa., on April 28, 2024. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar
Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—The investment firm Ancora is pushing U.S. Steel shareholders to drop the Nippon Steel merger and oust CEO David Burritt, a move that would align with President Donald Trump’s insistence that U.S. Steel stay in American hands.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.