We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
388 of its 479 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Pokhara accounted for 310 of Nepal's 388 stories about harm, carried by 708 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about 9 times the usual rate (35 stories). Plane crash was named in 176 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
312 of its 580 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Dnipro accounted for 167 of Ukraine's 312 stories about harm, carried by 329 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about 5 times the usual rate (159 stories). Extreme cold was named in 33 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
32 of its 48 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Lima accounted for 26 of Peru's 32 stories about harm, carried by 38 outlets. 19 of Lima's 26 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
24 of its 42 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Bucharest accounted for 20 of Romania's 24 stories about harm, carried by 53 outlets.
46 of its 80 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (7 stories). Avalanche was named in 12 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
37 of its 49 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Ramallah accounted for 26 of Palestine's 37 stories about harm, carried by 34 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
29 of its 47 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (17 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
10 of its 14 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
51 of its 113 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. 20 of Brasilia's 24 stories were about protests or strikes.
161 of its 428 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (6 stories).
Also named far more than usual: avalanche in Kashmir (12 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); polio in Pakistan (19 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); flooding in China (20 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); landslides in US (76 of its stories, about three times its usual); snowstorms in UK (17 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 15 Jan. 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 7,646 stories about harm among 36,156 counted on 15 Jan.
In Nepal's news, mentions of plane crash ran more than ten times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 21 in every 100 of the day's 36,156 stories, as usual. Help and hope: reports of people freed or reunited ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. In Nepal, 81% of the news was about people being harmed, where 31% is usual. On 15 January 2022, a year earlier, the share was 28 in every 100, against 21 today. This week the news turned most often to Peru, 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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