We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
442 of its 697 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Almaty accounted for 352 of Kazakhstan's 442 stories about harm, carried by 597 outlets. 317 of Almaty's 352 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (273 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's. Warmth in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
10 of its 14 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
46 of its 68 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. Tigray accounted for 35 of Ethiopia's 46 stories about harm, carried by 63 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
58 of its 166 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (14 stories). Tsunami was named in 11 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
10 of its 21 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
66 of its 196 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Khartoum accounted for 35 of Sudan's 46 stories about harm, carried by 56 outlets. 33 of Khartoum's 35 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
41 of its 57 stories (72%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (12 stories).
37 of its 89 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories).
25 of its 51 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in South Africa (13 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); snowstorms in Canada (31 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flu in Philippines (12 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); bird flu in UK (50 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); rabies in US (28 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 6 Jan. 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 23,921 stories about harm among 83,060 counted on 6 Jan.
The news turned to Kazakhstan for the third day running. 29 in every 100 of the day's 83,060 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Switzerland's news, mentions of the tsunami ran more than ten times their usual. A year earlier, on 6 January 2021, 27 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 29 today. Kazakhstan's news was 63% about people being harmed, against a usual 44%.
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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