We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
92 of its 135 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Yerevan accounted for 80 of Armenia's 92 stories about harm, carried by 133 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at more than ten times the usual rate (39 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
30 of its 39 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Guayaquil accounted for 22 of Ecuador's 30 stories about harm, carried by 32 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (26 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
105 of its 191 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Cairo accounted for 93 of Egypt's 105 stories about harm, carried by 179 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (63 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
16 of its 26 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. 14 of Varazdin's 14 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (14 stories).
84 of its 112 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Damascus accounted for 42 of Syria's 84 stories about harm, carried by 56 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (37 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Kabul accounted for 305 of Afghanistan's 383 stories about harm, carried by 480 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 4 times the usual rate (38 stories). Hunger was named in 40 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with heavy rain. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
106 of its 192 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Reports of refugees ran at about 4 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
10 of its 13 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories).
10 of its 11 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. 6 of Freetown's 7 stories were about protests or strikes.
45 of its 73 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: illness in Poland (15 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flooding in Ireland (29 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); hunger in Afghanistan (40 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flooding in UK (107 of its stories, about three times its usual); drought in China (22 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 15 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 14,511 stories about harm among 66,694 counted on 15 Aug.
In Armenia, 68% of the news was about people being harmed, where 20% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 22 in every 100 of the day's 66,694 stories, as usual. Mentions of flooding ran about 5 times their usual in Ireland's news.
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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