We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
874 of its 1,079 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Yerevan accounted for 571 of Armenia's 874 stories about harm, carried by 513 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (394 stories). Flooding was named in 58 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual. Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
158 of its 326 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. 63 of Saihat's 80 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (42 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
109 of its 138 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Reports of people killed ran at about 7 times the usual rate (92 stories). Natural hazards were named in 88 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
210 of its 604 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (124 stories). Diphtheria was named in 21 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
61 of its 76 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Tunis accounted for 49 of Tunisia's 61 stories about harm, carried by 162 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (59 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
848 of its 900 stories (94%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Mogadishu accounted for 780 of Somalia's 848 stories about harm, carried by 758 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (365 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
298 of its 550 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Tehran accounted for 203 of Iran's 298 stories about harm, carried by 110 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about 5 times the usual rate (43 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
25 of its 55 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of refugees ran at more than ten times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
231 of its 373 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (91 stories). Its coverage was about twice as warm as the world's.
177 of its 194 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 74%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (151 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: ebola in Spain (109 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hiv in Haiti (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); oil spill in Peru (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); typhoon in Philippines (66 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); tuberculosis in Switzerland (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 25 Jun. The big dot is this day; the shaded band is a normal day (the 30 days before it). Click a day to open it. Based on 36,273 stories about harm among 163,523 counted on 25 Jun.
Mentions of Ebola ran more than ten times their usual in Spain's news. of the day's 163,523 news stories, 22 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Reports of volunteers, a sign of help, ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. Evacuations were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about the US and Somalia. In Armenia, 81% of the news was about people being harmed, where 31% is usual.
Written by code from the day's numbers.
Countries with at least 50 stories that day.
Stories, not people.
The day's biggest events: attacks, accidents and disasters, people displaced, protests, outbreaks. Bigger dot: more stories. Ranked by the share of the day's outlets that reported it and how clearly it was about one thing, the same way for every place and year; the news data does not say who attacked whom, so both sides of a war appear where the news put them. Click a dot for its stories.
Of the stories about people being harmed, what part of life each was about. The mark is usual.
Stories that report it, not people: we count what reporters wrote, not what happened.
The words in the day's stories were about as usual. Filled dot: today. Ring: usual.
From the words reporters used across the whole day, never one story. Fear is the weakest of the four measures. How?
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