We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
859 of its 975 stories (88%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Abaco accounted for 698 of the Bahamas' 859 stories about harm, carried by 802 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (173 stories). Storm surge was named in 564 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual.
352 of its 374 stories (94%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Dhamar accounted for 285 of Yemen's 352 stories about harm, carried by 352 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (145 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
441 of its 639 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. Tung Chung accounted for 357 of Hong Kong's 441 stories about harm, carried by 364 outlets. 357 of Tung Chung's 357 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (6 stories).
76 of its 82 stories (93%) were about people being harmed, usually 78%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (5 stories). Measles was named in 38 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
315 of its 1,179 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (145 stories). Road crashes were named in 10 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
228 of its 593 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (211 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
98 of its 243 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of arrests ran at about 9 times the usual rate (58 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
46 of its 67 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. 25 of Icononzo's 25 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (34 stories).
27 of its 40 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Earthquake was named in 22 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
103 of its 336 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (75 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: earthquake in Haiti (22 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); hurricane in US (2701 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); extreme cold in Vietnam (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flu in Denmark (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hunger in Mozambique (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 1 Sep. 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 22,677 stories about harm among 84,246 counted on 1 Sep.
Stories about people being harmed made up 27 in every 100 of the day's 84,246 stories, above the usual 22. the Bahamas' news was 88% about people being harmed, against a usual 28%. On the side of help, reports of aid and relief ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate, most often about the US and Yemen. This week the news turned most often to Hong Kong, on 3 of 7 days; help rose on 4 of them. Over August, 22 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 21 in August 2018.
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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