We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
27 of its 46 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. 10 of Ayia Napa's 15 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 8 times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Kabul accounted for 295 of Afghanistan's 485 stories about harm, carried by 482 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 4 times the usual rate (50 stories). Covid was named in 69 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with hunger. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
184 of its 581 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (27 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Port-au-Prince accounted for 27 of Haiti's 53 stories about harm, carried by 80 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
281 of its 875 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (113 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
5 of Caracas' 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
19 of its 32 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
13 of its 28 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
30 of its 51 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Tunis accounted for 22 of Tunisia's 30 stories about harm, carried by 6 outlets.
142 of its 243 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Jerusalem accounted for 62 of Israel's 142 stories about harm, carried by 62 outlets.
Also named far more than usual: covid in Chile (15 of its stories, about three times its usual); outbreaks in Guinea (16 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); earthquake in China (69 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); outbreaks in Russia (24 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); measles in US (101 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 16 Sep. 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 23,624 stories about harm among 86,821 counted on 16 Sep.
In Cyprus, 59% of the news was about people being harmed, where 27% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 27 in every 100 of the day's 86,821 stories, below the usual 29. Mentions of Covid ran about three times their usual in Chile's news. A year earlier, on 16 September 2020, 27 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, the same as 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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