We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
47 of its 86 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Lima accounted for 36 of Peru's 47 stories about harm, carried by 47 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Oil spill was named in 29 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
50 of its 132 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. 18 of Baku's 31 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (29 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.
42 of its 98 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Monrovia accounted for 36 of Liberia's 42 stories about harm, carried by 40 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (33 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
65 of its 89 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 53%. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Reports of abductions ran at about three times the usual rate (34 stories). HIV was named in 21 of its stories about harm, about three times usual, with malaria and landslides. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Khartoum accounted for 35 of Sudan's 43 stories about harm, carried by 49 outlets. 31 of Khartoum's 35 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
127 of its 244 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (71 stories).
10 of its 16 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories).
Kabul accounted for 72 of Afghanistan's 132 stories about harm, carried by 97 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: illness in Cuba (40 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flu in Spain (27 of its stories, about three times its usual); flu in France (17 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); hiv in UK (21 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 20 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 23,544 stories about harm among 90,690 counted on 20 Jan.
No day had a lower share of stories about people being harmed since 17 December 2021. Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. 26 in every 100 of the day's 90,690 news stories were about people being harmed, below the usual 29. In Peru, 55% of the news was about people being harmed, where 33% is 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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