We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
42 of its 75 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Dakar accounted for 31 of Senegal's 42 stories about harm, carried by 61 outlets. 17 of Dakar's 31 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
97 of its 172 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Beirut accounted for 44 of Lebanon's 97 stories about harm, carried by 71 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 6 times the usual rate (67 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
344 of its 955 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Kyiv accounted for 222 of Ukraine's 344 stories about harm, carried by 487 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at about 8 times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (8 stories). Wildfires were named in 16 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Khartoum accounted for 131 of Sudan's 172 stories about harm, carried by 242 outlets. Power cuts were named in 11 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
12 of Copenhagen's 22 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (18 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.
24 of its 75 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (6 stories).
87 of its 301 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
92 of its 295 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
25 of its 69 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Minsk accounted for 17 of Belarus' 25 stories about harm, carried by 10 outlets.
Also named far more than usual: covid in Austria (10 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); hurricane in Mexico (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flooding in Japan (14 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); hurricane in US (443 of its stories, about three times its usual); power cuts in Sudan (11 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 1 Jun. 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 22,551 stories about harm among 126,731 counted on 1 Jun.
Mentions of Covid ran about 4 times their usual in Austria's news. of the day's 126,731 news stories, 18 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. A year earlier, on 1 June 2022, 22 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 18 today. Senegal's news was 56% about people being harmed, against a usual 32%. Over May, 18 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 22 in May 2022.
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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