We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
40 of its 59 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Issyk Kul accounted for 25 of Kyrgyzstan's 40 stories about harm, carried by 31 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (18 stories). Plague was named in 33 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual. Its coverage was about 4 times as grief-stricken as the world's.
147 of its 292 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (33 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
92 of its 130 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Idlib accounted for 33 of Syria's 92 stories about harm, carried by 92 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
12 of its 22 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. 6 of Quito's 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
54 of its 76 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (12 stories). Measles was named in 12 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
18 of its 18 stories (100%) were about people being harmed, usually 73%. Seytenga accounted for 12 of Burkina Faso's 18 stories about harm, carried by 20 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
37 of its 85 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of arrests ran at about 8 times the usual rate (12 stories).
34 of its 106 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories).
12 of its 33 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of refugees ran at about 8 times the usual rate (6 stories).
65 of its 210 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories).
Also named far more than usual: illness in Colombia (14 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); respiratory illness in Türkiye (19 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); measles in North Korea (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); wildfires in Spain (12 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); tornadoes in Canada (24 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 16 Jun. 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 18,213 stories about harm among 84,122 counted on 16 Jun.
In Kyrgyzstan, 68% of the news was about people being harmed, where 25% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 22 in every 100 of the day's 84,122 stories, as usual. It was the second day running that the news turned to Kyrgyzstan. On 16 June 2021, a year earlier, the share was 22 in every 100, the same as 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 much softer 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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