Buffalo Business First promotes ME Collins to editor in chief

Donna Collins

Buffalo Business First has promoted Donna Collins to editor-in-chief from her previous position as managing editor, reports Michelle Cicci of the paper.

Cicci reports, “Collins is an original employee of Business First, which launched in 1984 as the seventh newspaper at American City Business Journals, the largest publisher of local business news in the country.

“‘I’ve believed in the mission of Business First since the day I started,’ Collins said. ‘It’s been my privilege and honor to work with companies and organizations here. Our goal has been and always will be to help businesses do business. And I’m just thrilled to come to work every day to do just that.’

“Over the years, Collins has filled just about every editorial position at Business First, from reporter to editor-in-chief, a position she previously held for 13 years before stepping back for family reasons.

“While editor, Collins was awarded an ACBJ Eagle Award for Excellence, the highest individual award presented by ACBJ. She also was a reporter for the Niagara Gazette and a Dow Jones editing intern, working at The Philadelphia Inquirer.”

Read more here. She replaces Jeff Wright, who retired.

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.