We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
174 of its 286 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Ndjamena accounted for 155 of Chad's 174 stories about harm, carried by 142 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
162 of its 223 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (76 stories). Plague was named in 17 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
1,076 of its 1,587 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Kathmandu accounted for 1,057 of Nepal's 1,076 stories about harm, carried by 981 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (457 stories).
105 of its 176 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (66 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
290 of its 504 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Bogota accounted for 193 of Colombia's 290 stories about harm, carried by 166 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (76 stories). Its coverage was about twice as warm as the world's.
62 of its 143 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories). HIV was named in 35 of its stories about harm, about 9 times usual. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
117 of its 142 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Tirana accounted for 112 of Albania's 117 stories about harm, carried by 100 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at more than ten times the usual rate (85 stories).
127 of its 194 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 9 times the usual rate (99 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
1,111 of its 1,295 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 75%. Ghouta accounted for 934 of Syria's 1,111 stories about harm, carried by 591 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
123 of its 411 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (82 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: poisoning in Russia (616 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); hiv in Zambia (35 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); road crashes in Morocco (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hunger in China (114 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flu in Spain (30 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 12 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 45,271 stories about harm among 198,753 counted on 12 Mar.
In Chad, 61% of the news was about people being harmed, where 22% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 23 in every 100 of the day's 198,753 stories, as usual. Mentions of poisoning ran about 5 times their usual in Russia's news. A year earlier, on 12 March 2017, 22 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 23 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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