We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
565 of its 868 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Ankara accounted for 450 of Türkiye's 565 stories about harm, carried by 432 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (26 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
459 of its 893 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Riyadh accounted for 402 of Saudi Arabia's 459 stories about harm, carried by 361 outlets. 272 of Riyadh's 402 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
702 of its 1,064 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Warsaw accounted for 505 of Poland's 702 stories about harm, carried by 473 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
62 of its 177 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (20 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
624 of its 1,136 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (406 stories). Plane crash was named in 94 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with storms and snowstorms.
56 of its 79 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (49 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
67 of its 133 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of arrests ran at about 8 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
377 of its 830 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Harare accounted for 295 of Zimbabwe's 377 stories about harm, carried by 172 outlets. 241 of Harare's 295 stories were about protests or strikes.
296 of its 421 stories (70%) were about people being harmed, usually 59%. Kabul accounted for 219 of Afghanistan's 296 stories about harm, carried by 171 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
332 of its 502 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 55%. Reports of evacuations ran at about 9 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: power cuts in Puerto Rico (21 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); plane crash in Iran (94 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); wildfires in China (124 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); extreme cold in Germany (37 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); gas explosion in France (40 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 14 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 31,075 stories about harm among 163,838 counted on 14 Jan.
Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about twice the usual rate. of the day's 163,838 news stories, 19 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Abductions were reported at about three times the usual rate, most often about the US and Colombia. Mentions of power cuts ran more than ten times their usual in Puerto Rico's news. In Türkiye, 65% of the news was about people being harmed, where 34% is usual.
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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