We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
64 of its 102 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Jammu accounted for 39 of Kashmir's 64 stories about harm, carried by 24 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (21 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
34 of its 40 stories (85%) were about people being harmed, usually 62%. Yangon accounted for 27 of Myanmar's 34 stories about harm, carried by 39 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (19 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
429 of its 934 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (36 stories). Flooding was named in 59 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with power cuts. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Tehran accounted for 155 of Iran's 238 stories about harm, carried by 264 outlets. 109 of Tehran's 155 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
52 of its 79 stories (66%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Tigray accounted for 45 of Ethiopia's 52 stories about harm, carried by 48 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.
91 of its 263 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (31 stories).
26 of its 87 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (10 stories).
32 of its 88 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Cholera was named in 11 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual.
Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (19 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Port-au-Prince accounted for 28 of Haiti's 41 stories about harm, carried by 61 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
Also named far more than usual: cholera in Lebanon (11 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); flooding in Ireland (27 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); plague in UK (17 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); oil spill in US (18 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 19 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 16,369 stories about harm among 82,859 counted on 19 Oct.
Mentions of the cholera ran about 5 times their usual in Lebanon's news. of the day's 82,859 news stories, 20 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. On 19 October 2021, a year earlier, the share was 25 in every 100, against 20 today. Kashmir's news was 63% about people being harmed, against a usual 36%.
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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