We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
560 of its 917 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Karachi accounted for 372 of Pakistan's 560 stories about harm, carried by 658 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (111 stories). Plane crash was named in 237 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
153 of its 240 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 47%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Kabul accounted for 54 of Afghanistan's 92 stories about harm, carried by 87 outlets. Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
56 of its 84 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Gaza accounted for 27 of Palestine's 56 stories about harm, carried by 54 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
23 of its 44 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
59 of its 108 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (19 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.
141 of its 333 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (35 stories).
Moscow accounted for 124 of Russia's 206 stories about harm, carried by 382 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (6 stories).
Dhaka accounted for 54 of Bangladesh's 103 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: cyclone in India (211 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); malaria in Israel (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); house fires in Ireland (16 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); tuberculosis in Nigeria (14 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); drownings in US (57 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 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 20,670 stories about harm among 60,476 counted on 23 May.
34 in every 100 of the day's 60,476 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. On 24 May 2019, a year earlier, the share was 19 in every 100, against 34 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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