We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
83 of its 100 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Bamako accounted for 39 of Mali's 83 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. 26 of Bamako's 39 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
25 of its 28 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Plague was named in 21 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
67 of its 141 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
18 of its 34 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories).
125 of its 187 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 53%. Gaza accounted for 87 of Palestine's 125 stories about harm, carried by 10 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (96 stories).
73 of its 175 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
55 of its 67 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 70%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (14 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Idlib accounted for 35 of Syria's 83 stories about harm, carried by 46 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (22 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
22 of its 43 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (5 stories).
57 of its 142 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Warsaw accounted for 37 of Poland's 57 stories about harm, carried by 61 outlets.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Bangladesh (31 of its stories, about three times its usual); hiv in Uganda (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); malaria in Brazil (10 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flooding in Türkiye (10 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); flu in UK (110 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 14 Jul. 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 31,572 stories about harm among 106,600 counted on 14 Jul.
No day had a lower share of stories about people being harmed since 11 March 2020. Stories about people being harmed made up 30 in every 100 of the day's 106,600 stories, below the usual 31. It was the fourth day running that the news turned to Mali. In Mongolia's news, mentions of the plague ran about 4 times their usual. A year earlier, on 15 July 2019, 23 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 30 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 softer 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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