Michelle Cioci Adams has been named editor in chief of Buffalo Business First, an American City Business Journals publication.
She has been managing editor for the past four-and-a-half years and before that was associate editor for seven years.
Before joining ACBJ, Adams was the assistant managing editor of the Utica Observer-Dispatch in New York.
Cioci is from of Youngstown, Ohio, and a graduate of Kent State University. She moved to upstate New York in 2001 when she accepted a job as a copy editor/page designer at the Observer-Dispatch.
Adams replaces Donna Collins who has held just about every news position in her 38 years with the publication. Collins is retiring.
