We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
28 of its 42 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 53%. Cabo Delgado accounted for 20 of Mozambique's 28 stories about harm, carried by 35 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about three times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
31 of its 67 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
39 of its 62 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (10 stories).
32 of its 40 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. 8 of Managua's 12 stories were about protests or strikes.
Kabul accounted for 183 of Afghanistan's 285 stories about harm, carried by 178 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (29 stories). Measles was named in 16 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with hunger. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
30 of its 48 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
29 of its 88 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Brussels accounted for 27 of Belgium's 29 stories about harm, carried by 60 outlets.
41 of its 79 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
23 of its 64 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: road crashes in Sweden (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); measles in Afghanistan (16 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); oil spill in US (186 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); plague in UK (16 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 5 Oct. 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 23,088 stories about harm among 92,488 counted on 5 Oct.
Stories about people being harmed made up 25 in every 100 of the day's 92,488 stories, below the usual 27. On 5 October 2020, a year earlier, the share was 27 in every 100, against 25 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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