We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
32 of its 45 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Douala accounted for 27 of Cameroon's 32 stories about harm, carried by 41 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (24 stories). Building collapse was named in 20 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
59 of its 95 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Baghdad accounted for 40 of Iraq's 59 stories about harm, carried by 91 outlets. 31 of Baghdad's 40 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories).
44 of its 54 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 57%. Mogadishu accounted for 25 of Somalia's 44 stories about harm, carried by 50 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (23 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
24 of its 38 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
41 of its 50 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (27 stories). Heatwave was named in 26 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with storms. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
129 of its 296 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people affected ran at about 10 times the usual rate (78 stories). Drownings were named in 17 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
49 of its 106 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. 15 of Copenhagen's 30 stories were about protests or strikes. 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.
31 of its 55 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (27 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
348 of its 856 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of evacuations ran at about twice the usual rate (25 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
77 of its 188 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Phnom Penh accounted for 52 of Cambodia's 77 stories about harm, carried by 127 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Afghanistan (43 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heatwave in Algeria (26 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in New Zealand (50 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); typhoon in Philippines (38 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); hunger in Sudan (25 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 24 Jul. 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 18,981 stories about harm among 98,449 counted on 24 Jul.
Evacuations were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about Greece and the US. 19 in every 100 of the day's 98,449 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Afghanistan's news, mentions of flooding ran more than ten times their usual. Cameroon stood out: 71% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 34%. On 24 July 2022, a year earlier, the share was 24 in every 100, against 19 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 about as 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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