We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
588 of its 1,024 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Jerusalem accounted for 476 of Israel's 588 stories about harm, carried by 623 outlets. 306 of Jerusalem's 476 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (282 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
177 of its 436 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Blumenau accounted for 88 of Brazil's 177 stories about harm, carried by 326 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (109 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about three times its own usual.
Damascus accounted for 33 of Syria's 68 stories about harm, carried by 38 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
20 of its 53 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
Tehran accounted for 38 of Iran's 90 stories about harm, carried by 48 outlets. 23 of Tehran's 38 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
93 of its 353 stories (26%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Covid was named in 39 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
9 of its 25 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
14 of its 20 stories (70%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (8 stories).
10 of its 21 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
30 of its 103 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (11 stories).
Also named far more than usual: covid in Saudi Arabia (39 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); storms in Romania (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flu in South Korea (19 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in Vietnam (49 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); wildfires in Portugal (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 5 Apr. 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 24,257 stories about harm among 136,491 counted on 5 Apr.
18 in every 100 of the day's 136,491 news stories were about people being harmed, below the usual 19. A year earlier, on 5 April 2022, 22 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 18 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 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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