We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
873 of its 1,393 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Nakuru accounted for 578 of Kenya's 873 stories about harm, carried by 514 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (332 stories). Landslides were named in 83 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
244 of its 429 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Jakarta accounted for 200 of Indonesia's 244 stories about harm, carried by 143 outlets. 127 of Jakarta's 200 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (95 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
1,875 of its 2,831 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Pyongyang accounted for 1,683 of North Korea's 1,875 stories about harm, carried by 1,366 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (1,563 stories). Volcanic eruption was named in 50 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual.
389 of its 414 stories (94%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Tongo Tongo accounted for 186 of Niger's 389 stories about harm, carried by 325 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
1,311 of its 1,845 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 61%. 341 of Golan Heights' 622 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at about 4 times the usual rate (19 stories). Polio was named in 15 of its stories about harm, about 8 times usual. Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
106 of its 538 stories (20%) were about people being harmed, usually 12%. 69 of Sentosa's 86 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 8 times the usual rate (87 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
255 of its 277 stories (92%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Reports of people falling ill ran at more than ten times the usual rate (36 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
190 of its 220 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (56 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
337 of its 716 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
191 of its 230 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 64%. Tripoli accounted for 125 of Libya's 191 stories about harm, carried by 190 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about 5 times the usual rate (11 stories).
Also named far more than usual: hiv in Trinidad & Tobago (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heavy rain in Sierra Leone (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); building collapse in Brazil (15 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); hepatitis in Armenia (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); storms in Australia (98 of its stories, about 8 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 10 May. 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 48,060 stories about harm among 227,246 counted on 10 May.
Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about three times the usual rate. of the day's 227,246 news stories, 21 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Trinidad & Tobago's news mentioned HIV more than ten times as often as usual. Kenya's news was 63% about people being harmed, against a usual 28%. A year earlier, on 10 May 2017, 20 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 21 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 much 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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