We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
49 of its 59 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Nouakchott accounted for 41 of Mauritania's 49 stories about harm, carried by 36 outlets. 31 of Nouakchott's 41 stories were about protests or strikes. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
880 of its 1,525 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Reports of people injured ran at about 8 times the usual rate (525 stories). Plane crash was named in 137 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with heavy rain and power cuts. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
85 of its 124 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Dar es Salaam accounted for 66 of Tanzania's 85 stories about harm, carried by 50 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (11 stories).
518 of its 633 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 65%. Kabul accounted for 340 of Afghanistan's 518 stories about harm, carried by 407 outlets. Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
412 of its 913 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. 218 of Amazonas' 223 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (265 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
250 of its 286 stories (87%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Khartoum accounted for 158 of Sudan's 250 stories about harm, carried by 170 outlets. 136 of Khartoum's 158 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
114 of its 239 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Beirut accounted for 100 of Lebanon's 114 stories about harm, carried by 88 outlets. 84 of Beirut's 100 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (11 stories).
368 of its 622 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (101 stories). Warmth in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
71 of its 150 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. 46 of Rabat's 48 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (66 stories).
107 of its 121 stories (88%) were about people being harmed, usually 67%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (43 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Also named far more than usual: dengue in Bangladesh (80 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); hunger in El Salvador (20 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in Ethiopia (30 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); oil spill in Netherlands (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in India (204 of its stories, about 9 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 30 Jul. 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 35,489 stories about harm among 169,824 counted on 30 Jul.
Mauritania stood out: 83% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 26%. 21 in every 100 of the day's 169,824 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. On the side of help, reports of people freed or reunited ran at about twice the usual rate. Abductions were reported at about three times the usual rate, most often about Brazil and Germany. A year earlier, on 30 July 2018, 19 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 harsher 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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