We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
100 of its 161 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. 36 of Bogota's 37 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (51 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
88 of its 150 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (26 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
40 of its 104 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
56 of its 104 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Jammu accounted for 36 of Kashmir's 56 stories about harm, carried by 22 outlets. Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
53 of its 126 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. 16 of Yuen Long's 29 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (17 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
33 of its 72 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (13 stories).
48 of its 82 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Kathmandu accounted for 36 of Nepal's 48 stories about harm, carried by 40 outlets.
25 of its 59 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of refugees ran at about 10 times the usual rate (6 stories).
34 of its 62 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Tunis accounted for 25 of Tunisia's 34 stories about harm, carried by 5 outlets.
Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (18 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hunger in Ethiopia (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); flooding in South Africa (15 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); earthquake in Philippines (12 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); plane crash in US (148 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 6 May. 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 22,655 stories about harm among 96,214 counted on 6 May.
It was the lowest share of stories about people being harmed since 5 November 2020. of the day's 96,214 news stories, 24 in every 100 were about people being harmed, below the usual 25. the news turned to Colombia for the fifth day running. Mentions of the hunger ran about three times their usual in Ethiopia's news. A year earlier, on 6 May 2020, 35 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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