We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
90 of its 101 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 59%. Kigali accounted for 60 of Rwanda's 90 stories about harm, carried by 312 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (34 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
215 of its 489 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Paris accounted for 116 of France's 215 stories about harm, carried by 174 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
3 of Stara Gradiska's 3 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
26 of its 35 stories (74%) were about people being harmed, usually 61%.
25 of its 47 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (5 stories).
32 of its 44 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Budapest accounted for 20 of Hungary's 32 stories about harm, carried by 16 outlets.
17 of its 24 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
30 of its 66 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
109 of its 209 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Reports of people affected ran at about three times the usual rate (15 stories).
Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in Philippines (47 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); heatwave in Israel (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in India (110 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); malaria in UK (41 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); measles in Nigeria (12 of its stories, about 8 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 16 May. 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 22,452 stories about harm among 63,209 counted on 16 May.
Stories about people being harmed made up 36 in every 100 of the day's 63,209 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 17 May 2019, 19 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 36 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 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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