We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
49 of its 76 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Asmara accounted for 26 of Eritrea's 49 stories about harm, carried by 76 outlets. 17 of Asmara's 26 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people displaced ran at about 6 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about twice as warm as the world's.
751 of its 1,221 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Ankara accounted for 349 of Türkiye's 751 stories about harm, carried by 824 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 7 times the usual rate (71 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
19 of its 51 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (10 stories). Power cuts were named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
97 of its 209 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (41 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.
61 of its 93 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Quito accounted for 50 of Ecuador's 61 stories about harm, carried by 297 outlets. 49 of Quito's 50 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about 9 times the usual rate (43 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
29 of its 50 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 22 of Haiti's 29 stories about harm, carried by 178 outlets. 19 of Port-au-Prince's 22 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (22 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
234 of its 388 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. 16 of Addis Ababa's 30 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (80 stories). Its coverage was about twice as warm as the world's.
Baghdad accounted for 58 of Iraq's 93 stories about harm, carried by 124 outlets. 43 of Baghdad's 58 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
227 of its 842 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (146 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
9 of its 15 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. 3 of Sarajevo's 4 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in Japan (127 of its stories, about three times its usual); illness in Indonesia (38 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); tuberculosis in France (24 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); oil spill in Iran (25 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drownings in Kenya (11 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 11 Oct. 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 22,752 stories about harm among 123,141 counted on 11 Oct.
Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about twice the usual rate. of the day's 123,141 news stories, 18 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Refugees were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about Türkiye and the US. Eritrea's news was 64% about people being harmed, against a usual 33%. On 11 October 2018, a year earlier, the share was 22 in every 100, against 18 today.
Written by code from the day's numbers.
Countries with at least 50 stories that day.
Stories, not people.
Each country shaded by how much of its news was about people being harmed, against the world's 18 in 100 that day. Stronger colour: further above. A country with few stories is drawn closer to the world's. Click a country.
Stories, not people. Countries with at least 50 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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