We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
115 of its 184 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 11%. Minsk accounted for 113 of Belarus' 115 stories about harm, carried by 123 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at more than ten times the usual rate (109 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
136 of its 170 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. 41 of Khartoum's 55 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (46 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
96 of its 106 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 67%. Ndong accounted for 68 of Equatorial Guinea's 96 stories about harm, carried by 134 outlets. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
168 of its 474 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people injured ran at about 10 times the usual rate (48 stories). Storms were named in 66 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with snowstorms and avalanche.
98 of its 188 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Banjul accounted for 91 of the Gambia's 98 stories about harm, carried by 110 outlets. 82 of Banjul's 91 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
200 of its 243 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 67%. Mogadishu accounted for 131 of Somalia's 200 stories about harm, carried by 133 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (40 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
309 of its 698 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (270 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
62 of its 170 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people affected ran at about 6 times the usual rate (23 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
829 of its 1,637 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Jerusalem accounted for 597 of Israel's 829 stories about harm, carried by 233 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (373 stories).
110 of its 128 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 72%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 8 times the usual rate (74 stories). Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Also named far more than usual: helicopter crash in Zimbabwe (95 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); poisoning in North Korea (51 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); outbreaks in Malawi (16 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); accidents in Panama (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); tsunami in Japan (53 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 19 Jan. 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 46,193 stories about harm among 212,939 counted on 19 Jan.
Belarus' news was 62% about people being harmed, against a usual 11%. of the day's 212,939 news stories, 22 in every 100 were about people being harmed, below the usual 23. Zimbabwe's news mentioned helicopter crash more than ten times as often as usual. Help and hope: reports of vaccination ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. On 19 January 2017, a year earlier, the share was 20 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 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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