We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
510 of its 600 stories (85%) were about people being harmed, usually 68%. Managua accounted for 383 of Nicaragua's 510 stories about harm, carried by 549 outlets. 300 of Managua's 383 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
677 of its 919 stories (74%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Kabul accounted for 517 of Afghanistan's 677 stories about harm, carried by 420 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about 7 times the usual rate (105 stories). Drought was named in 17 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
123 of its 207 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about 4 times its own usual.
233 of its 560 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (113 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about three times its own usual.
219 of its 327 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. 28 of Pucallpa's 29 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (177 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
301 of its 531 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Brussels accounted for 291 of Belgium's 301 stories about harm, carried by 236 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (148 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about 4 times its own usual.
634 of its 923 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Yerevan accounted for 593 of Armenia's 634 stories about harm, carried by 406 outlets. 562 of Yerevan's 593 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (272 stories).
155 of its 174 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 66%. Agadez accounted for 137 of Niger's 155 stories about harm, carried by 156 outlets. 135 of Agadez's 137 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
88 of its 108 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. 66 of Antananarivo's 66 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (50 stories).
458 of its 506 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 72%. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (323 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hunger in South Sudan (56 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); drought in Congo (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heavy rain in Kenya (16 of its stories, about three times its usual); tsunami in Brazil (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); outbreaks in Japan (17 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 Apr. 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 41,212 stories about harm among 188,256 counted on 23 Apr.
For the fifth day running, the news turned to Nicaragua. Stories about people being harmed made up 22 in every 100 of the day's 188,256 stories, as usual. Mentions of the hunger ran about 5 times their usual in South Sudan's news. In Nicaragua, 85% of the news was about people being harmed, where 68% is usual. On 23 April 2017, a year earlier, the share was 22 in every 100, the same as 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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