We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
39 of its 76 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Tripoli accounted for 26 of Libya's 39 stories about harm, carried by 46 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (18 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Baghdad accounted for 33 of Iraq's 51 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. 21 of Baghdad's 33 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
114 of its 243 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. da Nang accounted for 68 of Vietnam's 114 stories about harm, carried by 67 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 8 times the usual rate (22 stories).
37 of its 48 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Tropical storm was named in 17 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with heavy rain. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
61 of its 85 stories (72%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Darfur accounted for 36 of Sudan's 61 stories about harm, carried by 41 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
55 of its 131 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (103 stories). Drownings were named in 14 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
14 of its 14 stories (100%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Tropical storm was named in 13 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with hurricane.
379 of its 912 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
89 of its 240 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Flu was named in 24 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Also named far more than usual: tropical storm in Guadeloupe (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); covid in Burkina Faso (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flu in Switzerland (24 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hurricane in Mexico (14 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); drownings in Malaysia (14 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 28 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 30,131 stories about harm among 105,402 counted on 28 Jul.
It was the lowest share of stories about people being harmed since 10 March 2020. of the day's 105,402 news stories, 29 in every 100 were about people being harmed, below the usual 31. Guadeloupe's news mentioned tropical storm more than ten times as often as usual. On 29 July 2019, a year earlier, the share was 22 in every 100, against 29 today. In Libya, 51% of the news was about people being harmed, where 38% is usual.
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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