We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
203 of its 376 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. 31 of Repulse Bay's 37 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (89 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
578 of its 677 stories (85%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Bagram accounted for 469 of Afghanistan's 578 stories about harm, carried by 517 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (365 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
385 of its 1,707 stories (23%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of people affected ran at about 5 times the usual rate (99 stories). Plague was named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
327 of its 1,073 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of refugees ran at about 5 times the usual rate (153 stories).
Khartoum accounted for 278 of Sudan's 346 stories about harm, carried by 215 outlets. 251 of Khartoum's 278 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (197 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
889 of its 1,130 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Tehran accounted for 563 of Iran's 889 stories about harm, carried by 547 outlets. Its coverage was about 5 times as fearful as the world's.
156 of its 197 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 71%. Sanaa accounted for 87 of Yemen's 156 stories about harm, carried by 82 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Tripoli accounted for 361 of Libya's 413 stories about harm, carried by 242 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 4 times the usual rate (69 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
205 of its 218 stories (94%) were about people being harmed, usually 59%. Panchimalco accounted for 174 of el Salvador's 205 stories about harm, carried by 175 outlets.
281 of its 633 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (29 stories).
Also named far more than usual: landslides in Brazil (63 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in Bangladesh (32 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); tuberculosis in Portugal (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); plague in Poland (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); storm surge in Mozambique (16 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 9 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 38,293 stories about harm among 200,900 counted on 9 Apr.
In Brazil's news, mentions of landslides ran more than ten times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 19 in every 100 of the day's 200,900 stories, as usual. Help and hope: reports of vaccination ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. In Hong Kong, 54% of the news was about people being harmed, where 21% is usual. A year earlier, on 9 April 2018, 21 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 19 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 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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