We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
132 of its 218 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Jammu accounted for 72 of Kashmir's 132 stories about harm, carried by 27 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
52 of its 89 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Pyongyang accounted for 33 of North Korea's 52 stories about harm, carried by 52 outlets. Illness was named in 33 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
33 of its 109 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people affected ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
51 of its 117 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. 17 of Beirut's 33 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (19 stories).
124 of its 217 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Dhaka accounted for 85 of Bangladesh's 124 stories about harm, carried by 72 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (52 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
32 of its 47 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 53%. Drought was named in 13 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
194 of its 362 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (54 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
556 of its 1,827 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (19 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
70 of its 123 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Tigray accounted for 52 of Ethiopia's 70 stories about harm, carried by 222 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Ramallah accounted for 38 of Palestine's 53 stories about harm, carried by 30 outlets. 26 of Ramallah's 38 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hurricane in Mexico (21 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); drought in Somalia (13 of its stories, about three times its usual); snowstorms in New Zealand (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); wildfires in Canada (33 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); building collapse in US (303 of its stories, about 9 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 28 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 18,465 stories about harm among 80,765 counted on 28 Jun.
Stories about people being harmed made up 23 in every 100 of the day's 80,765 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 28 June 2020, 34 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 23 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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