We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
301 of its 405 stories (74%) were about people being harmed, usually 58%. Tehran accounted for 163 of Iran's 301 stories about harm, carried by 338 outlets. 128 of Tehran's 163 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people affected ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories). Earthquake was named in 15 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
27 of its 32 stories (84%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 18 of Haiti's 27 stories about harm, carried by 36 outlets. Cholera was named in 15 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
59 of its 202 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people affected ran at about 9 times the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
55 of its 151 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (11 stories).
18 of its 24 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Latacunga accounted for 14 of Ecuador's 18 stories about harm, carried by 21 outlets. 7 of Latacunga's 14 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
29 of its 38 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 64%. Ouagadougou accounted for 20 of Burkina Faso's 29 stories about harm, carried by 33 outlets. 12 of Ouagadougou's 20 stories were about protests or strikes.
Reports of evacuations ran at about 5 times the usual rate (12 stories). Avalanche was named in 45 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
19 of its 22 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (10 stories).
16 of its 25 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (14 stories).
9 of its 20 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories).
Also named far more than usual: power cuts in Bangladesh (20 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); snowstorms in New Zealand (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); avalanche in India (45 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); ebola in Nigeria (12 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); heavy rain in Australia (14 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 5 Oct. 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 16,047 stories about harm among 79,379 counted on 5 Oct.
For the second day running, the news turned to Iran. Stories about people being harmed made up 20 in every 100 of the day's 79,379 stories, as usual. On 5 October 2021, a year earlier, the share was 25 in every 100, against 20 today. In Iran, 74% of the news was about people being harmed, where 58% 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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