We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
167 of its 186 stories (90%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 128 of Haiti's 167 stories about harm, carried by 312 outlets. 79 of Port-au-Prince's 128 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (148 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
108 of its 151 stories (72%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Jammu accounted for 64 of Kashmir's 108 stories about harm, carried by 43 outlets. Its coverage was about 4 times as fearful as the world's.
26 of its 36 stories (72%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Reports of people affected ran at about 6 times the usual rate (6 stories).
12 of its 14 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (8 stories).
39 of its 73 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Caracas accounted for 30 of Venezuela's 39 stories about harm, carried by 85 outlets. 18 of Caracas' 30 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (9 stories).
54 of its 103 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Beirut accounted for 45 of Lebanon's 54 stories about harm, carried by 81 outlets. 30 of Beirut's 45 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
61 of its 99 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Tigray accounted for 39 of Ethiopia's 61 stories about harm, carried by 185 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
86 of its 173 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Covid was named in 46 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
23 of Dhaka's 39 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (49 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
24 of its 54 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories).
Also named far more than usual: covid in Iraq (46 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); hiv in Italy (22 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); polio in Afghanistan (31 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heavy rain in India (120 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); heavy rain in Vietnam (10 of its stories, about 9 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 18 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 19,184 stories about harm among 77,567 counted on 18 Oct.
Abductions were reported at about three times the usual rate, most often about Haiti and the US. of the day's 77,567 news stories, 25 in every 100 were about people being harmed, below the usual 26. Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. It was the second day running that the news turned to Haiti. In Iraq's news, mentions of Covid ran about 4 times their usual.
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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