We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
53 of its 122 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Pulwama accounted for 31 of Kashmir's 53 stories about harm, carried by 28 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (27 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
40 of its 108 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (14 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
15 of its 43 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (10 stories). Bird flu was named in 10 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual, with flu.
11 of Tehran's 20 stories were about protests or strikes. Flooding was named in 10 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
86 of its 274 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Sanaa accounted for 49 of Yemen's 52 stories about harm, carried by 108 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (45 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Khartoum accounted for 201 of Sudan's 239 stories about harm, carried by 585 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (85 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
17 of its 20 stories (85%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
40 of its 128 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories).
11 of its 17 stories (65%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: cyclone in Australia (32 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); natural hazards in France (18 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flooding in Israel (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in Pakistan (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); tropical storm in US (26 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 15 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 12,758 stories about harm among 69,620 counted on 15 Apr.
In Chile's news, mentions of bird flu ran about 6 times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 18 in every 100 of the day's 69,620 stories, as usual. On 15 April 2022, a year earlier, the share was 23 in every 100, against 18 today. In Kashmir, 43% of the news was about people being harmed, where 26% is usual.
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 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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