Oscar nomination for '20 Days in Mariupol,' AP's first, comes as bombs fall on filmmaker's hometown
โ20 Days in Mariupol,โ Mstyslav Chernovโs harrowing chronicle of the besieged Ukrainian city and the international journalists who remained there after Russia invaded, has been nominated for best documentary at the Academy Awards.
Target to offer another round of bonuses to frontline employees
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. โ Target announced that more than 350,000 of its employees will receive $200 bonuses. Target has spent nearly one billion dollars on workers well-being, healthy and safety so far this year. Thatโs on top of several pay raises to motivate its employees who are unable to work from home. Aside from its bonuses, the company also raised its starting wage to $15 this summer. The bonuses will go to Target team members who work at all of its stores and distribution centers by early November.
Film shows nightmare of an emergency room in Italy
So it was more frightening, definitely.Achilli's film, Inside Italy's COVID War, is being shown on Frontline at 10 p.m. Tuesday on most PBS stations. While the documentary looks at the crisis through the eyes of an emergency room doctor at Cremona Hospital in northern Italy, the story is universal. Since she's from Italy and her father still lives there, the coronavirus story was more personal. A picture the doctor took of an exhausted colleague circulated widely online, and Achilli reached out before she even traveled to Italy. Mangiatordi's cooperation, and that of her colleagues and family, enabled Frontline to tell the broader story through a personal lens.