We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
254 of its 410 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Jerusalem accounted for 191 of Israel's 254 stories about harm, carried by 410 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (159 stories). Illness was named in 74 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
185 of its 246 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Cairo accounted for 166 of Egypt's 185 stories about harm, carried by 445 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (146 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
22 of its 49 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (11 stories). Illness was named in 14 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
118 of its 457 stories (26%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (38 stories).
60 of its 82 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Yerevan accounted for 59 of Armenia's 60 stories about harm, carried by 217 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (51 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
40 of its 64 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Damascus accounted for 21 of Syria's 40 stories about harm, carried by 178 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (18 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
725 of its 2,459 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (12 stories). Drought was named in 81 of its stories about harm, about three times usual, with heavy rain.
Kabul accounted for 122 of Afghanistan's 160 stories about harm, carried by 155 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
39 of its 127 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
80 of its 164 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hunger in Ukraine (25 of its stories, about three times its usual); drought in UK (81 of its stories, about three times its usual); house fires in US (65 of its stories, about 10 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 14 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 8,180 stories about harm among 35,185 counted on 14 Aug.
People injured were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about the US and Israel. of the day's 35,185 news stories, 23 in every 100 were about people being harmed, above the usual 22. Ukraine's news mentioned the hunger about three times as often as usual. A year earlier, on 14 August 2021, 27 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 23 today. In Israel, 62% of the news was about people being harmed, where 44% is usual. This week the news turned most often to Sierra Leone, on 4 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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