We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
35 of its 53 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Nablus accounted for 21 of Palestine's 35 stories about harm, carried by 26 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (19 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
38 of its 80 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (7 stories).
Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (42 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
8 of Khartoum's 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
72 of its 102 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 58%. Damascus accounted for 25 of Syria's 72 stories about harm, carried by 26 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (20 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Kyiv accounted for 779 of Ukraine's 1,682 stories about harm, carried by 1,009 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about twice the usual rate (15 stories). Drought was named in 12 of its stories about harm, about three times usual, with storms. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
76 of its 219 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
682 of its 2,054 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (59 stories).
84 of its 276 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (13 stories).
Reports of abductions ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hunger in Yemen (18 of its stories, about three times its usual); outbreaks in Japan (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); house fires in Australia (20 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in Ukraine (12 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 15 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 19,790 stories about harm among 87,616 counted on 15 Mar.
Of the day's 87,616 news stories, 23 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. A year earlier, on 15 March 2021, 26 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 23 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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