We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
155 of its 195 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Rabat accounted for 86 of Morocco's 155 stories about harm, carried by 78 outlets. 76 of Rabat's 86 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (59 stories). Flooding was named in 62 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual.
65 of its 101 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Caracas accounted for 48 of Venezuela's 65 stories about harm, carried by 47 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 9 times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
97 of its 105 stories (92%) were about people being harmed, usually 66%. Sanmatenga accounted for 72 of Burkina Faso's 97 stories about harm, carried by 69 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 4 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as angry as the world's.
1,228 of its 1,540 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 71%. Abaco accounted for 567 of the Bahamas' 1,228 stories about harm, carried by 691 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (32 stories). Cholera was named in 32 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
150 of its 474 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (42 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
585 of its 1,329 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (46 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
391 of its 594 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. 109 of Causeway Bay's 115 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
468 of its 1,939 stories (24%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of people injured ran at about 10 times the usual rate (237 stories). Typhoon was named in 332 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual, with storm surge.
105 of its 285 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (48 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
47 of its 312 stories (15%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories). Hurricane was named in 18 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in Japan (332 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); wildfires in Australia (176 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); hurricane in Canada (234 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); drought in Bolivia (15 of its stories, about three times its usual); heatwave in France (52 of its stories, about 9 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 9 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 31,361 stories about harm among 150,268 counted on 9 Sep.
In Morocco, 79% of the news was about people being harmed, where 19% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 21 in every 100 of the day's 150,268 stories, below the usual 22. Help and hope: reports of peace efforts ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. In Japan's news, mentions of the typhoon ran about 7 times their usual. On 9 September 2018, a year earlier, the share was 22 in every 100, 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 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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