We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
503 of its 1,007 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Kyiv accounted for 374 of Ukraine's 503 stories about harm, carried by 629 outlets. Train derailment was named in 24 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Tehran accounted for 160 of Iran's 256 stories about harm, carried by 243 outlets. 127 of Tehran's 160 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people affected ran at about 5 times the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
66 of its 155 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (22 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
57 of its 95 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Kampala accounted for 29 of Uganda's 57 stories about harm, carried by 38 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
69 of its 122 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Tigray accounted for 53 of Ethiopia's 69 stories about harm, carried by 81 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
9 of its 13 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. 4 of Freetown's 6 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
185 of its 787 stories (24%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (21 stories). Road crashes were named in 10 of its stories about harm, about 9 times usual.
20 of its 65 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Reports of evacuations ran at about 6 times the usual rate (24 stories). Plane crash was named in 13 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Port-au-Prince accounted for 23 of Haiti's 39 stories about harm, carried by 41 outlets. 13 of Port-au-Prince's 23 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
Also named far more than usual: polio in Afghanistan (21 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); polio in Germany (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); house fires in Ireland (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in France (10 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); drought in Canada (15 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 17 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 14,189 stories about harm among 72,410 counted on 17 Oct.
No day had a lower share of stories about people being harmed since 15 September 2022. Stories about people being harmed made up 20 in every 100 of the day's 72,410 stories, below the usual 21. Mentions of the polio ran more than ten times their usual in Afghanistan's news. A year earlier, on 17 October 2021, 25 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 20 today. Ukraine stood out: 50% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 39%.
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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