We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
429 of its 460 stories (93%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Douala accounted for 193 of Cameroon's 429 stories about harm, carried by 119 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (390 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
98 of its 103 stories (95%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Ouagadougou accounted for 97 of Burkina Faso's 98 stories about harm, carried by 115 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about 6 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
49 of its 54 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 76%. 28 of Mutakura's 28 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (12 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
98 of its 391 stories (25%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (80 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
859 of its 1,075 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 74%. Aleppo accounted for 612 of Syria's 859 stories about harm, carried by 410 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (46 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
735 of its 1,441 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (494 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
56 of its 64 stories (88%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Montevideo accounted for 43 of Uruguay's 56 stories about harm, carried by 46 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at more than ten times the usual rate (19 stories).
366 of its 441 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 68%. Reports of abductions ran at about 5 times the usual rate (126 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
29 of its 85 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. 10 of Bucharest's 14 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (18 stories).
324 of its 1,144 stories (28%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of refugees ran at more than ten times the usual rate (114 stories). Wildfires were named in 76 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Also named far more than usual: heavy rain in Niger (16 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); typhoon in Hong Kong (16 of its stories, about three times its usual); wildfires in France (76 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); cholera in Angola (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); polio in Iraq (231 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 Oct. 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 29,801 stories about harm among 140,265 counted on 23 Oct.
Mentions of heavy rain ran more than ten times their usual in Niger's news. of the day's 140,265 news stories, 21 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. the news turned to Cameroon for the third day running. Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. In Cameroon, 93% of the news was about people being harmed, where 54% is usual. This week the news turned most often to Cameroon, on 3 of 7 days; help rose on 3 of them.
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 harsher than 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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