We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
107 of its 150 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Beirut accounted for 83 of Lebanon's 107 stories about harm, carried by 131 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (34 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
31 of its 56 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (25 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
22 of its 29 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 58%. Covid was named in 12 of its stories about harm, about three times usual.
16 of Yerevan's 26 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
91 of its 221 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of abductions ran at about 6 times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
285 of its 818 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (26 stories). Ebola was named in 10 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual.
19 of its 30 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
50 of its 141 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Buenos Aires accounted for 29 of Argentina's 50 stories about harm, carried by 39 outlets.
Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (15 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hiv in Australia (135 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); measles in Italy (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); ebola in Russia (10 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); hiv in Canada (13 of its stories, about three times its usual); malaria in India (18 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 11 Dec. 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 23,643 stories about harm among 94,415 counted on 11 Dec.
For the second day running, the news turned to Lebanon. Stories about people being harmed made up 25 in every 100 of the day's 94,415 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 12 December 2019, 17 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 25 today. In Lebanon, 71% 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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