We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
110 of its 143 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 60%. Mandalay accounted for 62 of Myanmar's 110 stories about harm, carried by 148 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about 5 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
118 of its 255 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of refugees ran at about 10 times the usual rate (28 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
76 of its 152 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Beirut accounted for 67 of Lebanon's 76 stories about harm, carried by 16 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (48 stories).
140 of its 380 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Vienna accounted for 128 of Austria's 140 stories about harm, carried by 254 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (54 stories).
136 of its 257 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 5 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as angry as the world's.
523 of its 764 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 56%. Kabul accounted for 356 of Afghanistan's 523 stories about harm, carried by 398 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
26 of its 98 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (22 stories). Heatwave was named in 22 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
169 of its 463 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. 99 of Athens' 119 stories were about protests or strikes. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
52 of its 191 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (38 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
110 of its 220 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. 42 of Tegucigalpa's 51 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hurricane in Cuba (38 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); tropical storm in Philippines (258 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); heatwave in Latvia (22 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hunger in Somalia (18 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); flu in Poland (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 22 Dec. 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 35,471 stories about harm among 178,567 counted on 22 Dec.
Stories about people being harmed made up 20 in every 100 of the day's 178,567 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 22 December 2016, 21 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 20 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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