We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
100 of its 246 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Islamabad accounted for 45 of Pakistan's 100 stories about harm, carried by 63 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (34 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
41 of its 59 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Covid was named in 36 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
54 of its 95 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Baghdad accounted for 26 of Iraq's 54 stories about harm, carried by 23 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
15 of its 39 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories).
41 of its 64 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Kabul accounted for 18 of Afghanistan's 41 stories about harm, carried by 20 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
32 of its 74 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
39 of its 184 stories (21%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Prague accounted for 26 of the Czechia's 39 stories about harm, carried by 3 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories).
6 of its 7 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Bissau accounted for 6 of Guinea-Bissau's 6 stories about harm, carried by 2 outlets.
6 of Nairobi's 12 stories were about protests or strikes. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Paris accounted for 51 of France's 73 stories about harm, carried by 54 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (9 stories).
Also named far more than usual: wildfires in UK (10 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); cyclone in US (16 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 22 Mar. 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 7,822 stories about harm among 46,520 counted on 22 Mar.
No day had a lower share of stories about people being harmed since 18 December 2019. Belize's news mentioned Covid about 4 times as often as usual. 17 in every 100 of the day's 46,520 news stories were about people being harmed, below the usual 20. A year earlier, on 22 March 2022, 23 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 17 today.
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 softer 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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