We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
46 of its 76 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Kigali accounted for 22 of Rwanda's 46 stories about harm, carried by 24 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 4 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
84 of its 219 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Mecca accounted for 57 of Saudi Arabia's 84 stories about harm, carried by 114 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
76 of its 219 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
6 of its 9 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. 5 of Skopje's 6 stories were about protests or strikes.
31 of its 55 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 16 of Haiti's 31 stories about harm, carried by 75 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
55 of its 171 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
385 of its 1,099 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
Flooding was named in 25 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Colombo accounted for 36 of Sri Lanka's 71 stories about harm, carried by 33 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
7 of Nukus' 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Also named far more than usual: illness in Jamaica (15 of its stories, about three times its usual); flooding in Pakistan (25 of its stories, about three times its usual); landslides in UK (14 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 7 Jul. 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 17,580 stories about harm among 83,250 counted on 7 Jul.
In Pakistan's news, mentions of flooding ran about three times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 21 in every 100 of the day's 83,250 stories, as usual. On 7 July 2021, a year earlier, the share was 22 in every 100, against 21 today. In Rwanda, 61% of the news was about people being harmed, where 49% 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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