We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
2,037 of its 4,391 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Kyiv accounted for 851 of Ukraine's 2,037 stories about harm, carried by 966 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about 5 times the usual rate (18 stories). Plague was named in 26 of its stories about harm, about 8 times usual, with power cuts and hypothermia. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
45 of its 72 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Udhampur accounted for 27 of Kashmir's 45 stories about harm, carried by 19 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
23 of its 30 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. 5 of Bamako's 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
84 of its 193 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Caracas accounted for 62 of Venezuela's 84 stories about harm, carried by 239 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories).
89 of its 235 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured 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.
Reports of abductions ran at about 7 times the usual rate (18 stories). Plague was named in 13 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
11 of its 19 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
13 of its 25 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
22 of its 51 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of refugees ran at about 4 times the usual rate (5 stories).
57 of its 159 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: wildfires in Australia (71 of its stories, about three times its usual); accidents in South Africa (21 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); tuberculosis in India (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); plague in Russia (13 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); accidents in US (13 of its stories, about 7 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 9 Mar. 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 20,431 stories about harm among 89,202 counted on 9 Mar.
For the fifth day running, the news turned to Ukraine. Stories about people being harmed made up 23 in every 100 of the day's 89,202 stories, as usual. Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about twice the usual rate. Reports of refugees ran at about twice the usual rate, most often about Ukraine and Russia. Australia's news mentioned wildfires about three times as often as 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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