We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
228 of its 380 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Taipei accounted for 208 of Taiwan's 228 stories about harm, carried by 200 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (22 stories). Typhoon was named in 121 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual, with landslides, hurricane and storm surge.
205 of its 340 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Bishkek accounted for 169 of Kyrgyzstan's 205 stories about harm, carried by 135 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (55 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
167 of its 292 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Baghdad accounted for 119 of Iraq's 167 stories about harm, carried by 143 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 10 times the usual rate (87 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
2,367 of its 8,112 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. 459 of New Delhi's 850 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of evacuations ran at about 6 times the usual rate (188 stories). Avalanche was named in 13 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual.
163 of its 399 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Cairo accounted for 109 of Egypt's 163 stories about harm, carried by 83 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (44 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Ramallah accounted for 281 of Palestine's 366 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories). Hepatitis was named in 37 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual, with poisoning, polio and whooping cough. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
53 of its 59 stories (90%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (53 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
549 of its 1,348 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (64 stories). Volcanic eruption was named in 16 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with gas explosion.
427 of its 903 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (221 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
81 of its 154 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (52 stories). Building collapse was named in 47 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Also named far more than usual: wildfires in Colombia (119 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); building collapse in Cambodia (47 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); dengue in Philippines (70 of its stories, about three times its usual); poisoning in France (61 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); malaria in Burundi (10 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 8 Aug. 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 38,000 stories about harm among 170,904 counted on 8 Aug.
Taiwan stood out: 60% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 15%. 22 in every 100 of the day's 170,904 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. People falling ill were reported at about 4 times the usual rate, most often about the US and the UK. Colombia's news mentioned wildfires more than ten times as often as usual. It was the second day running that the news turned to Taiwan.
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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