We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
162 of its 227 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Beirut accounted for 146 of Lebanon's 162 stories about harm, carried by 228 outlets. 111 of Beirut's 146 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (26 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
113 of its 172 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Kongsberg accounted for 88 of Norway's 113 stories about harm, carried by 333 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (56 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
105 of its 236 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (28 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
72 of its 162 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (31 stories).
363 of its 529 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 58%. Kabul accounted for 154 of Afghanistan's 363 stories about harm, carried by 379 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (154 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
91 of its 120 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about 4 times as fearful as the world's.
101 of its 163 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Dhaka accounted for 57 of Bangladesh's 101 stories about harm, carried by 69 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (38 stories).
31 of its 60 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. 8 of Buea's 10 stories were about protests or strikes.
154 of its 481 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. 38 of Rome's 71 stories were about protests or strikes.
61 of its 113 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Colombo accounted for 27 of Sri Lanka's 61 stories about harm, carried by 23 outlets.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Greece (15 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); road crashes in Ireland (17 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); hunger in India (24 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); earthquake in UK (11 of its stories, about 7 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 15 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 20,871 stories about harm among 81,665 counted on 15 Oct.
It was the second day running that the news turned to Lebanon. of the day's 81,665 news stories, 26 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Greece's news mentioned flooding about 9 times as often as usual. Lebanon's news was 71% about people being harmed, against a usual 40%. A year earlier, on 15 October 2020, 25 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 26 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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