We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
826 of its 1,243 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Cairo accounted for 744 of Egypt's 826 stories about harm, carried by 537 outlets. 608 of Cairo's 744 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (140 stories). Hunger was named in 14 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual.
80 of its 89 stories (90%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Ouagadougou accounted for 67 of Burkina Faso's 80 stories about harm, carried by 59 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (60 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.
286 of its 318 stories (90%) were about people being harmed, usually 60%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 7 times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
174 of its 400 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (151 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
111 of its 211 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. 61 of Banjul's 72 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (71 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
5,495 of its 16,077 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (2,147 stories). Food poisoning was named in 38 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
147 of its 193 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 58%. Darfur accounted for 87 of Sudan's 147 stories about harm, carried by 98 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (36 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
102 of its 161 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. 63 of Maladzyechna's 63 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (92 stories).
269 of its 647 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (37 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
120 of its 338 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. 91 of Lantau's 97 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (17 stories).
Also named far more than usual: hunger in North Korea (82 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); landslides in Venezuela (102 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); malaria in Cambodia (23 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); chikungunya in Peru (27 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); food poisoning in Myanmar (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 24 Mar. 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 52,440 stories about harm among 245,790 counted on 24 Mar.
North Korea's news mentioned the hunger more than ten times as often as usual. 21 in every 100 of the day's 245,790 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Egypt, 66% of the news was about people being harmed, where 39% is usual. On 24 March 2016, a year earlier, the share was 22 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 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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