We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
175 of its 191 stories (92%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. 71 of Tegucigalpa's 71 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (105 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
521 of its 549 stories (95%) were about people being harmed, usually 64%. Ouagadougou accounted for 503 of Burkina Faso's 521 stories about harm, carried by 462 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 8 times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
280 of its 406 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Bratislava accounted for 256 of Slovakia's 280 stories about harm, carried by 196 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (255 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
81 of its 115 stories (70%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (75 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
194 of its 450 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Kiev accounted for 169 of Ukraine's 194 stories about harm, carried by 241 outlets. 160 of Kiev's 169 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (155 stories).
468 of its 1,298 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. 92 of Paris' 172 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of evacuations ran at about 7 times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
519 of its 1,092 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Jerusalem accounted for 397 of Israel's 519 stories about harm, carried by 66 outlets. 279 of Jerusalem's 397 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (248 stories).
119 of its 149 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Sanaa accounted for 102 of Yemen's 119 stories about harm, carried by 113 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (90 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
163 of its 213 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of arrests ran at about 9 times the usual rate (131 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's. Warmth in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
57 of its 72 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. 3 of Chiche's 4 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
Also named far more than usual: drownings in Guyana (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); typhoon in Philippines (68 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); outbreaks in Australia (108 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); poisoning in Cuba (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); measles in Italy (13 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 3 Mar. 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 30,571 stories about harm among 126,852 counted on 3 Mar.
In Guyana's news, mentions of drownings ran more than ten times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 24 in every 100 of the day's 126,852 stories, above the usual 21. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate, most often about the US and the UK. In Honduras, 92% of the news was about people being harmed, where 43% is usual. A year earlier, on 3 March 2017, 21 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 24 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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