We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
297 of its 501 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Chiapas accounted for 151 of Mexico's 297 stories about harm, carried by 507 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (192 stories). Road crashes were named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
173 of its 262 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Kabul accounted for 98 of Afghanistan's 173 stories about harm, carried by 282 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (36 stories).
33 of its 94 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
60 of its 172 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of refugees ran at about 6 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
44 of its 79 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Tunis accounted for 37 of Tunisia's 44 stories about harm, carried by 51 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (8 stories).
61 of its 80 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 66%. 16 of Yangon's 20 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
54 of its 98 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Baghdad accounted for 33 of Iraq's 54 stories about harm, carried by 137 outlets. Illness was named in 16 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual.
Jammu accounted for 24 of Kashmir's 36 stories about harm, carried by 16 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
19 of its 32 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of refugees ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories).
69 of its 190 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people affected ran at about three times the usual rate (6 stories).
Also named far more than usual: illness in Iraq (16 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); helicopter crash in India (120 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); road crashes in Ireland (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); tsunami in UK (64 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); poisoning in China (10 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 10 Dec. 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 21,723 stories about harm among 85,220 counted on 10 Dec.
Mexico stood out: 59% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 27%. 25 in every 100 of the day's 85,220 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. A year earlier, on 10 December 2020, 24 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, 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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