We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
114 of its 134 stories (85%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Ljubljana accounted for 110 of Slovenia's 114 stories about harm, carried by 135 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (40 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
98 of its 201 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. 86 of Warsaw's 89 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about 6 times the usual rate (86 stories). Plane crash was named in 84 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
49 of its 100 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Food poisoning was named in 44 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with poisoning. Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
142 of its 315 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (41 stories). Landslides were named in 63 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
147 of its 233 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Amman accounted for 113 of Jordan's 147 stories about harm, carried by 89 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (133 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
472 of its 789 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Tehran accounted for 390 of Iran's 472 stories about harm, carried by 263 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (279 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
27 of Shanghai's 45 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (11 stories). Cyclone was named in 13 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with typhoon, plane crash and heavy rain. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
29 of its 62 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 7%. Reports of people killed ran at about 9 times the usual rate (23 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
1,006 of its 1,791 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (232 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
272 of its 713 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (136 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: road crashes in Switzerland (97 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in Ethiopia (33 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); hypothermia in Papua New Guinea (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); helicopter crash in Taiwan (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); outbreaks in Sri Lanka (18 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 11 Jun. 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 28,093 stories about harm among 117,374 counted on 11 Jun.
Slovenia's news was 85% about people being harmed, against a usual 9%. of the day's 117,374 news stories, 24 in every 100 were about people being harmed, above the usual 22. Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about twice the usual rate. Mentions of plane crash ran more than ten times their usual in Poland's news. Evacuations were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about Germany and Greece. This week the news turned most often to Myanmar, on 3 of 7 days; help rose on 5 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 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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