We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
459 of its 1,038 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Pyongyang accounted for 423 of North Korea's 459 stories about harm, carried by 340 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (158 stories). Poisoning was named in 130 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
110 of its 529 stories (21%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. 64 of Prague's 77 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (76 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
123 of its 139 stories (88%) were about people being harmed, usually 59%. Antananarivo accounted for 101 of Madagascar's 123 stories about harm, carried by 103 outlets. Its coverage was about 5 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
140 of its 355 stories (39%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (96 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
85 of its 149 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Rabat accounted for 79 of Morocco's 85 stories about harm, carried by 81 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (81 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
236 of its 361 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Valletta accounted for 204 of Malta's 236 stories about harm, carried by 187 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (90 stories). Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
900 of its 1,114 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 74%. 340 of Qaryatayn's 386 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (51 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
451 of its 689 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Reports of abductions ran at about 6 times the usual rate (17 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
247 of its 573 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (50 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
96 of its 272 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of people killed ran at about 9 times the usual rate (85 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in Japan (385 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); train derailment in Poland (58 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hiv in Tanzania (29 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); avalanche in Mongolia (18 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); bird flu in Bulgaria (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 Oct. 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 45,013 stories about harm among 200,966 counted on 23 Oct.
Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. 22 in every 100 of the day's 200,966 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. People displaced were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about the Philippines and the US. North Korea stood out: 44% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 29%. On 23 October 2016, a year earlier, the share was 21 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 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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