Buffalo Biz First names Adams its editor in chief

Michelle Cioci Adams

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.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.