We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
610 of its 992 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. 177 of Amazonas' 194 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (452 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
425 of its 689 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Dhaka accounted for 332 of Bangladesh's 425 stories about harm, carried by 237 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (164 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
288 of its 349 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (54 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
41 of its 97 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (28 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
221 of its 485 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. 75 of Tehran's 131 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (110 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
279 of its 469 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 201 of Haiti's 279 stories about harm, carried by 160 outlets. 132 of Port-au-Prince's 201 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (23 stories).
254 of its 439 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Bouake accounted for 212 of Côte d’Ivoire's 254 stories about harm, carried by 255 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (6 stories).
52 of its 92 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
147 of its 367 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Bucharest accounted for 126 of Romania's 147 stories about harm, carried by 110 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (91 stories).
635 of its 1,923 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. 203 of Seoul's 400 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (61 stories).
Also named far more than usual: hypothermia in Poland (41 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); cholera in Zimbabwe (49 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heavy rain in Thailand (52 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); volcanic eruption in Costa Rica (15 of its stories, about three times its usual); drought in Mexico (90 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 6 Jan. 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 52,484 stories about harm among 247,069 counted on 6 Jan.
Mentions of the hypothermia ran more than ten times their usual in Poland's news. of the day's 247,069 news stories, 21 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. Brazil's news was 61% about people being harmed, against a usual 26%. On 7 January 2016, a year earlier, the share was 20 in every 100, against 21 today.
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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