We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
88 of its 96 stories (92%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Sarajevo accounted for 83 of Bosnia's 88 stories about harm, carried by 90 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 4 times the usual rate (6 stories). Road crashes were named in 82 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
80 of its 194 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. 64 of Phnom Penh's 69 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (34 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
102 of its 186 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people killed ran at about 6 times the usual rate (83 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
164 of its 363 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Extreme cold was named in 77 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
722 of its 811 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 79%. Shabwa accounted for 427 of Yemen's 722 stories about harm, carried by 360 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 9 times the usual rate (187 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
40 of its 61 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Reports of people killed ran at more than ten times the usual rate (38 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
34 of its 119 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 11%. Reports of arrests ran at about 10 times the usual rate (26 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
65 of its 95 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (16 stories). Meningitis was named in 11 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (155 stories). Avalanche was named in 84 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with extreme cold and tuberculosis. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Kabul accounted for 151 of Afghanistan's 279 stories about harm, carried by 130 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: tropical storm in Mexico (495 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); cyclone in Antarctica (30 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); tsunami in Japan (154 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); landslides in China (231 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); avalanche in Pakistan (84 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 10 Aug. 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 37,066 stories about harm among 189,747 counted on 10 Aug.
It was the lowest share of stories about people being harmed since 9 June 2017. Reports of people falling ill ran at about twice the usual rate, most often about the US and Australia. Mexico's news mentioned tropical storm about 4 times as often as usual. 20 in every 100 of the day's 189,747 news stories were about people being harmed, below the usual 22.
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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