We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
124 of its 127 stories (98%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Tillaberi accounted for 89 of Niger's 124 stories about harm, carried by 103 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (111 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
476 of its 750 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Pyongyang accounted for 426 of North Korea's 476 stories about harm, carried by 315 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 7 times the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
132 of its 315 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. 91 of Havana's 108 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (35 stories). Road crashes were named in 61 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
191 of its 232 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (135 stories). Flooding was named in 13 of its stories about harm, about three times usual.
141 of its 264 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. HIV was named in 10 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
103 of its 110 stories (94%) were about people being harmed, usually 67%. Sarajevo accounted for 83 of Bosnia's 103 stories about harm, carried by 73 outlets. Its coverage was about 5 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
136 of its 360 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (80 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
164 of its 263 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (93 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
1,195 of its 2,048 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (579 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
249 of its 779 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Snowstorms were named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: drought in South Sudan (103 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); volcanic eruption in Nicaragua (35 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); polio in Finland (31 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); rubella in Norway (19 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); diphtheria in Sri Lanka (17 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 Feb. 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 61,982 stories about harm among 286,903 counted on 23 Feb.
Niger's news was 98% about people being harmed, against a usual 32%. of the day's 286,903 news stories, 22 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. On 24 February 2016, a year earlier, the share was 20 in every 100, against 22 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 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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