We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
115 of its 154 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 66%. Kabul accounted for 75 of Afghanistan's 115 stories about harm, carried by 72 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (63 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
131 of its 286 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Dubai accounted for 121 of the United Arab Emirates' 131 stories about harm, carried by 77 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (8 stories).
39 of its 72 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Reports of evacuations ran at about 5 times the usual rate (11 stories).
3 of Managua's 4 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
35 of its 47 stories (74%) were about people being harmed, usually 58%. Guayaquil accounted for 29 of Ecuador's 35 stories about harm, carried by 47 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
86 of its 165 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (20 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
412 of its 871 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
79 of its 111 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Ramallah accounted for 52 of Palestine's 79 stories about harm, carried by 12 outlets.
165 of its 287 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (11 stories).
36 of its 41 stories (88%) were about people being harmed, usually 65%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hunger in North Korea (13 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); wildfires in Ukraine (22 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); tornadoes in US (722 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); storms in Canada (23 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); earthquake in India (25 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 13 Apr. 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 38,818 stories about harm among 93,195 counted on 13 Apr.
The news turned to Afghanistan for the second day running. 42 in every 100 of the day's 93,195 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In North Korea's news, mentions of the hunger ran about 8 times their usual. On 14 April 2019, a year earlier, the share was 20 in every 100, against 42 today. Afghanistan's news was 75% about people being harmed, against a usual 66%.
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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