We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
79 of its 195 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Bogota accounted for 42 of Colombia's 79 stories about harm, carried by 75 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (56 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
28 of its 35 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 63%. Aung Hlaing accounted for 21 of Myanmar's 28 stories about harm, carried by 163 outlets. 14 of Aung Hlaing's 21 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
270 of its 742 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (131 stories). Plane crash was named in 39 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
18 of its 40 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (17 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
175 of its 421 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Jerusalem accounted for 85 of Israel's 175 stories about harm, carried by 125 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
72 of its 147 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Tehran accounted for 55 of Iran's 72 stories about harm, carried by 124 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
18 of its 23 stories (78%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
13 of its 39 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people affected ran at more than ten times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (47 stories). HIV was named in 15 of its stories about harm, about 8 times usual, with tuberculosis. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
54 of its 100 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: volcanic eruption in Philippines (29 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); earthquake in US (55 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); wildfires in UK (16 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); hiv in Ukraine (15 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); road crashes in India (12 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 27 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 8,991 stories about harm among 39,562 counted on 27 Mar.
On the side of help, reports of people freed or reunited ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. Stories about people being harmed made up 23 in every 100 of the day's 39,562 stories, as usual. It was the second day running that the news turned to Colombia. A year earlier, on 27 March 2021, 27 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 23 today. Colombia stood out: 41% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 28%.
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 harsher than 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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