We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
52 of its 70 stories (74%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. 11 of Yangon's 18 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (12 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
73 of its 100 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 55%. Mogadishu accounted for 58 of Somalia's 73 stories about harm, carried by 79 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (35 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
584 of its 1,313 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. White Island accounted for 332 of New Zealand's 584 stories about harm, carried by 587 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (163 stories).
50 of its 180 stories (28%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people injured ran at about 10 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
347 of its 901 stories (39%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. 58 of Lahore's 102 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
52 of its 62 stories (84%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
180 of its 217 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of refugees ran at about 4 times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
102 of its 212 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of people killed ran at more than ten times the usual rate (82 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
22 of its 36 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
46 of its 128 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (23 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: wildfires in Indonesia (27 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); volcanic eruption in Australia (110 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heavy rain in South Africa (45 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); landslides in Papua New Guinea (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); polio in Malaysia (18 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 11 Dec. 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 21,005 stories about harm among 119,504 counted on 11 Dec.
In Indonesia's news, mentions of wildfires ran more than ten times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 18 in every 100 of the day's 119,504 stories, as usual. Myanmar's news was 74% about people being harmed, against a usual 40%. On 11 December 2018, a year earlier, the share was 19 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.
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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