We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
115 of its 185 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Quito accounted for 102 of Ecuador's 115 stories about harm, carried by 255 outlets. 92 of Quito's 102 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of evacuations ran at about 5 times the usual rate (12 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
38 of its 55 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Mogadishu accounted for 29 of Somalia's 38 stories about harm, carried by 26 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
388 of its 1,237 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (108 stories). Flooding was named in 150 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual, with power cuts and landslides.
51 of its 240 stories (21%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
199 of its 750 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. 83 of Barcelona's 95 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (83 stories). Tsunami was named in 10 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual.
27 of its 31 stories (87%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Salmossi accounted for 16 of Burkina Faso's 27 stories about harm, carried by 16 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
16 of its 30 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. 14 of Conakry's 14 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 9 times the usual rate (9 stories).
19 of Kyiv's 27 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (27 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Reports of evacuations ran at about 8 times the usual rate (6 stories). Heavy rain was named in 14 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with storms. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
12 of its 54 stories (22%) were about people being harmed, usually 12%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
Also named far more than usual: heavy rain in New Zealand (14 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); building collapse in France (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); snowstorms in Canada (21 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in South Africa (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); tsunami in Spain (10 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 14 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 18,509 stories about harm among 104,896 counted on 14 Oct.
Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about twice the usual rate. of the day's 104,896 news stories, 18 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. the news turned to Ecuador for the second day running. Mentions of flooding ran about 5 times their usual in Japan's news. A year earlier, on 14 October 2018, 24 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 18 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 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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