We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
105 of its 158 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 56%. Jammu accounted for 78 of Kashmir's 105 stories about harm, carried by 41 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (24 stories). Heavy rain was named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
106 of its 176 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Dhaka accounted for 45 of Bangladesh's 106 stories about harm, carried by 35 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about twice the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
97 of its 240 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (17 stories). Hurricane was named in 17 of its stories about harm, about three times usual, with flooding.
107 of its 216 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. 16 of Ankara's 31 stories were about protests or strikes.
77 of its 111 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 61%. Idlib accounted for 28 of Syria's 77 stories about harm, carried by 45 outlets. Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
34 of its 70 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
36 of its 56 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
308 of its 776 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
31 of its 41 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 18 of Haiti's 31 stories about harm, carried by 32 outlets.
9 of its 20 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
Also named far more than usual: food poisoning in US (35 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 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 12,428 stories about harm among 47,353 counted on 23 Oct.
Reports of people falling ill ran at about 4 times the usual rate, most often about the US and India. 26 in every 100 of the day's 47,353 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Mexico's news, mentions of the hurricane ran about three times their usual. On 23 October 2020, a year earlier, the share was 27 in every 100, against 26 today. Kashmir's news was 66% about people being harmed, against a usual 56%.
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 harsher 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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