We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
587 of its 774 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 35%. Jerusalem accounted for 286 of Israel's 587 stories about harm, carried by 499 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (233 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
106 of its 119 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Matanzas accounted for 78 of Cuba's 106 stories about harm, carried by 233 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (64 stories).
41 of its 92 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories).
13 of its 21 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. 5 of Baghdad's 8 stories were about protests or strikes.
149 of its 183 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Gaza accounted for 117 of Palestine's 149 stories about harm, carried by 92 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (69 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
27 of its 52 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Bogota accounted for 25 of Colombia's 27 stories about harm, carried by 183 outlets. Earthquake was named in 14 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
195 of its 408 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (12 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Kabul accounted for 60 of Afghanistan's 81 stories about harm, carried by 50 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (31 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
17 of its 30 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people killed ran at about 7 times the usual rate (12 stories).
13 of its 34 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories).
Also named far more than usual: earthquake in Colombia (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flooding in Mexico (10 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); extreme cold in South Africa (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); helicopter crash in Pakistan (10 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); volcanic eruption in US (23 of its stories, about 7 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 7 Aug. 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 8,453 stories about harm among 35,518 counted on 7 Aug.
The share of stories about people being harmed was the highest since 22 May 2022. 24 in every 100 of the day's 35,518 news stories were about people being harmed, above the usual 22. In Colombia's news, mentions of the earthquake ran more than ten times their usual. the news turned to Israel for the third day running. Reports of abductions ran at about twice the usual rate, most often about Nigeria and India. This week the news turned most often to Lebanon, on 3 of 7 days; help rose on 1 of them.
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 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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