We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
48 of its 85 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Khojaly accounted for 40 of Azerbaijan's 48 stories about harm, carried by 16 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about 7 times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
37 of its 50 stories (74%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (16 stories). Illness was named in 29 of its stories about harm, about three times usual.
24 of its 39 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of arrests ran at about 8 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
81 of its 98 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 69%. Yangon accounted for 47 of Myanmar's 81 stories about harm, carried by 97 outlets. 46 of Yangon's 47 stories were about protests or strikes.
89 of its 144 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Tigray accounted for 68 of Ethiopia's 89 stories about harm, carried by 155 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (72 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
273 of its 361 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. Baghdad accounted for 92 of Iraq's 273 stories about harm, carried by 266 outlets. Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
243 of its 488 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (46 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
100 of its 186 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Reports of refugees ran at about twice the usual rate (18 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
125 of its 285 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (23 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
26 of its 38 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 18 of Haiti's 26 stories about harm, carried by 44 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (18 stories).
Also named far more than usual: outbreaks in Spain (13 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); oil spill in Israel (12 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); storms in France (10 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); accidents in Russia (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); plague in UK (49 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 26 Feb. 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 24,288 stories about harm among 96,743 counted on 26 Feb.
Abductions were reported at about three times the usual rate, most often about Nigeria and the US. of the day's 96,743 news stories, 25 in every 100 were about people being harmed, below the usual 26. Spain's news mentioned outbreaks about 4 times as often as usual. Azerbaijan's news was 56% about people being harmed, against a usual 32%. On 27 February 2020, a year earlier, the share was 23 in every 100, against 25 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 about as 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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