We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
98 of its 129 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. 17 of Jammu's 34 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (73 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
114 of its 262 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Minsk accounted for 76 of Belarus' 114 stories about harm, carried by 218 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (16 stories).
896 of its 2,401 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of evacuations ran at about 5 times the usual rate (61 stories). Flooding was named in 207 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual, with landslides, storms and wildfires.
Kabul accounted for 115 of Afghanistan's 178 stories about harm, carried by 196 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
106 of its 128 stories (83%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Khartoum accounted for 86 of Sudan's 106 stories about harm, carried by 100 outlets. 83 of Khartoum's 86 stories were about protests or strikes. 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.
14 of its 17 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. 3 of Inata's 4 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
85 of its 233 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories).
447 of its 1,131 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Reports of people affected 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.
Also named far more than usual: covid in Haiti (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); overdoses in US (83 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); snowstorms in UK (10 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 18 Nov. 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 21,982 stories about harm among 91,702 counted on 18 Nov.
Of the day's 91,702 news stories, 24 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. On 18 November 2020, a year earlier, the share was 26 in every 100, against 24 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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