We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
43 of its 55 stories (78%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Mogadishu accounted for 31 of Somalia's 43 stories about harm, carried by 58 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (19 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
337 of its 656 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Natural hazards were named in 72 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
6 of Yangon's 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Covid was named in 12 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
Beirut accounted for 30 of Lebanon's 36 stories about harm, carried by 35 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (12 stories).
93 of its 346 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Dubai accounted for 79 of the United Arab Emirates' 93 stories about harm, carried by 149 outlets.
46 of its 75 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
329 of its 930 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (35 stories).
305 of its 975 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (13 stories).
134 of its 387 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Hurricane was named in 29 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual, with tropical storm, storms and heavy rain.
3 of Martissant's 6 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: polio in Afghanistan (46 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hurricane in Mexico (29 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); respiratory illness in Australia (18 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); gas explosion in China (17 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); heatwave in US (113 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 15 Jun. 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 20,416 stories about harm among 91,027 counted on 15 Jun.
In Afghanistan's news, mentions of the polio ran more than ten times their usual. On 15 June 2020, a year earlier, the share was 33 in every 100, against 22 today. Somalia's news was 78% about people being harmed, against a usual 48%. of the day's 91,027 news stories, 22 in every 100 were about people being harmed, below the usual 24.
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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