We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
421 of its 1,035 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Tokyo accounted for 341 of Japan's 421 stories about harm, carried by 737 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (151 stories). Typhoon was named in 313 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with landslides, flooding and storms.
555 of its 838 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Ankara accounted for 276 of Türkiye's 555 stories about harm, carried by 461 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 6 times the usual rate (70 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
109 of its 162 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. 9 of Addis Ababa's 15 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people displaced ran at about 4 times the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about twice as warm as the world's.
19 of its 65 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
60 of its 92 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Quito accounted for 52 of Ecuador's 60 stories about harm, carried by 202 outlets. 52 of Quito's 52 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at about 6 times the usual rate (6 stories).
32 of its 36 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 68%. Salmossi accounted for 19 of Burkina Faso's 32 stories about harm, carried by 38 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
21 of its 36 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. 12 of Port-au-Prince's 13 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories).
Jammu accounted for 65 of Kashmir's 75 stories about harm, carried by 52 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (32 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
100 of its 432 stories (23%) were about people being harmed, usually 7%. Reports of arrests ran at about 9 times the usual rate (65 stories).
114 of its 260 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Nigeria (29 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); oil spill in Saudi Arabia (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); natural hazards in Malaysia (13 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); wildfires in US (335 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); snowstorms in Canada (15 of its stories, about 8 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 12 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 13,293 stories about harm among 67,508 counted on 12 Oct.
Reports of evacuations ran at about 4 times the usual rate, most often about Japan and the US. Stories about people being harmed made up 20 in every 100 of the day's 67,508 stories, as usual. Japan's news was 41% about people being harmed, against a usual 13%. On the side of help, reports of people freed or reunited ran at about twice the usual rate. A year earlier, on 12 October 2018, 21 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 20 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 much 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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