We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
530 of its 884 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Istanbul accounted for 428 of Türkiye's 530 stories about harm, carried by 346 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (88 stories). Building collapse was named in 107 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with earthquake. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
55 of its 88 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Zagreb accounted for 54 of Croatia's 55 stories about harm, carried by 57 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (53 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
Khartoum accounted for 62 of Sudan's 101 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. 52 of Khartoum's 62 stories were about protests or strikes. Poisoning was named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
123 of its 173 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (17 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
249 of its 520 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
796 of its 1,477 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (206 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
129 of its 220 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories). Snowstorms were named in 70 of its stories about harm, about 10 times usual, with avalanche and landslides.
83 of its 378 stories (22%) were about people being harmed, usually 11%. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (24 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
47 of its 129 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (19 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
144 of Manbij's 164 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at about 6 times the usual rate (18 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: snowstorms in Kashmir (70 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); heatwave in Greenland (26 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hiv in China (101 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); dengue in Philippines (69 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); bird flu in Kuwait (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 7 Feb. 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 39,410 stories about harm among 203,864 counted on 7 Feb.
Help and hope: reports of vaccination ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. of the day's 203,864 news stories, 19 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Kashmir's news mentioned snowstorms about 10 times as often as usual. Türkiye's news was 60% about people being harmed, against a usual 41%. On 7 February 2018, a year earlier, the share was 19 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 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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