We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
55 of its 77 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Sibe accounted for 46 of Burkina Faso's 55 stories about harm, carried by 51 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (54 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
257 of its 512 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Schaffhausen accounted for 202 of Switzerland's 257 stories about harm, carried by 224 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (204 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
64 of its 216 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. 28 of Bucharest's 48 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (24 stories). Road crashes were named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
28 of its 66 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of refugees ran at about 8 times the usual rate (12 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
281 of its 499 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Doha accounted for 167 of Qatar's 281 stories about harm, carried by 113 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (24 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as fearful as the world's.
204 of its 236 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 10%. Montevideo accounted for 197 of Uruguay's 204 stories about harm, carried by 138 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (178 stories).
124 of its 190 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (83 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
2,132 of its 3,149 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Jerusalem accounted for 1,899 of Israel's 2,132 stories about harm, carried by 796 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
248 of its 363 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. Reports of abductions ran at about 4 times the usual rate (18 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
492 of its 1,580 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (132 stories). Hepatitis was named in 12 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
Also named far more than usual: flu in Myanmar (37 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); extreme cold in Türkiye (121 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); food poisoning in North Korea (26 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); cholera in Kenya (31 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); landslides in Bangladesh (29 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 25 Jul. 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 43,766 stories about harm among 205,374 counted on 25 Jul.
Burkina Faso stood out: 71% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 14%. 21 in every 100 of the day's 205,374 news stories were about people being harmed, below the usual 22. In Myanmar's news, mentions of the flu ran more than ten times their usual. A year earlier, on 25 July 2016, 22 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, 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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