We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
Aleppo accounted for 711 of Syria's 989 stories about harm, carried by 489 outlets. 382 of Aleppo's 711 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at about three times the usual rate (20 stories). Food poisoning was named in 15 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
455 of its 522 stories (87%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Tete accounted for 353 of Mozambique's 455 stories about harm, carried by 393 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at more than ten times the usual rate (42 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
229 of its 280 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 63%. Dinka accounted for 117 of South Sudan's 229 stories about harm, carried by 116 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (162 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
309 of its 731 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (19 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
110 of its 123 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 8%. Bratislava accounted for 106 of Slovakia's 110 stories about harm, carried by 102 outlets. 104 of Bratislava's 106 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
222 of its 286 stories (78%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. 102 of Mandalay's 103 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (199 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
1,279 of its 3,194 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. 326 of Manila's 614 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of refugees ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
213 of its 611 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. 131 of Harare's 152 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at about 6 times the usual rate (24 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
85 of its 139 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Reports of refugees ran at more than ten times the usual rate (29 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
220 of its 246 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 74%. Sanaa accounted for 142 of Yemen's 220 stories about harm, carried by 138 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Haiti (137 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); heatwave in Morocco (55 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); bird flu in South Korea (38 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hiv in Malawi (26 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); tuberculosis in Tanzania (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 18 Nov. 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 54,772 stories about harm among 268,977 counted on 18 Nov.
Reports of people falling ill ran at about 4 times the usual rate, most often about Uganda and Ireland. 20 in every 100 of the day's 268,977 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Haiti's news, mentions of flooding ran about 5 times their 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 softer 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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