We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
41 of its 87 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. 11 of Bogota's 17 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
2,056 of its 4,986 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Polio was named in 18 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
23 of its 28 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 64%. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
25 of its 33 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of people injured ran at about 9 times the usual rate (6 stories).
28 of its 51 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Tunis accounted for 22 of Tunisia's 28 stories about harm, carried by 10 outlets.
43 of its 82 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (34 stories).
Dhaka accounted for 52 of Bangladesh's 100 stories about harm, carried by 42 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
5 of Algiers' 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (14 stories).
Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (22 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: illness in Cuba (16 of its stories, about three times its usual); covid in Sri Lanka (20 of its stories, about three times its usual); outbreaks in Netherlands (10 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); polio in Pakistan (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); drought in South Africa (10 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 29 Apr. 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 23,257 stories about harm among 96,421 counted on 29 Apr.
Stories about people being harmed made up 24 in every 100 of the day's 96,421 stories, below the usual 25. A year earlier, on 29 April 2020, 36 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 24 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 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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