MAY 6, 2007 -- As former editor and now community manager and reporter of the BusinessWeek.com B-Schools Channel, freelance journalist Francesca Di Meglio plays a major role on the team that last week won the 2007 National Magazine Award for Interactive Service. The coveted award, known as an Ellie, is the highest honor in the magazine industry. BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler accepted the award, along with current B-Schools channel editor Phil Mintz, at a ceremony at Rose Hall at Lincoln Center on May 1.

"Building on BusinessWeek magazine's annual rankings, BusinessWeek.com's 'B-Schools' is a deeply rich and satisfying environment that really makes the grade--combining authoritative information with a treasure trove of resources and a highly engaged community. Through its multilayered rankings, school searches allowing instant access to articles and profiles, student blogs giving would-be B-Schools unique insights, and its 'Best Places to Launch a Career' table, B-Schools is  interactive service at its best," according to the citation for the award.

Mintz and Di Meglio share the honors with the entire B-schools team -- Jessica Sanders, Kerry Miller, Louis Lavelle, Geoff Gloeckler, Arthur Eves -- and the entire BW staff, including executive editors Kathy Rebello and John Byrne, who led the team to this victory.

If you'd like to check out the section of the site that won -- and for which Di Meglio works -- visit www.businessweek.com/bschools and www.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate.