We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
105 of its 122 stories (86%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Tripoli accounted for 103 of Libya's 105 stories about harm, carried by 213 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (90 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
29 of its 48 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people affected ran at about 7 times the usual rate (22 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
17 of its 39 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. 3 of Dar es Salaam's 4 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
144 of its 211 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Pyongyang accounted for 97 of North Korea's 144 stories about harm, carried by 368 outlets.
19 of its 33 stories (58%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
9 of its 11 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of people affected ran at about 6 times the usual rate (6 stories).
229 of its 790 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
68 of its 312 stories (22%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (23 stories).
26 of its 47 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
58 of its 284 stories (20%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in Japan (43 of its stories, about three times its usual); hunger in Azerbaijan (23 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); covid in Netherlands (17 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); food poisoning in Iceland (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); dengue in Vietnam (19 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 16 Aug. 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 19,648 stories about harm among 109,591 counted on 16 Aug.
In Libya, 86% of the news was about people being harmed, where 33% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 18 in every 100 of the day's 109,591 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 16 August 2022, 21 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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