We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
77 of its 145 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Sotk accounted for 44 of Armenia's 77 stories about harm, carried by 28 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (68 stories). 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.
52 of its 109 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Saidia accounted for 31 of Morocco's 52 stories about harm, carried by 36 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (46 stories). 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.
445 of its 1,123 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Johannesburg accounted for 270 of South Africa's 445 stories about harm, carried by 426 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (114 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
70 of its 302 stories (23%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. 7 of Brasilia's 10 stories were about protests or strikes.
50 of its 55 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 46%. Quito accounted for 40 of Ecuador's 50 stories about harm, carried by 208 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (38 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
59 of its 168 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people injured ran at about 9 times the usual rate (9 stories). Typhoon was named in 45 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with flooding and storm surge.
23 of its 38 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
34 of its 69 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
14 of its 27 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories).
31 of its 83 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (10 stories).
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in Hong Kong (45 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); illness in Vietnam (30 of its stories, about three times its usual); hunger in Germany (22 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); extreme cold in Iran (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flooding in Kenya (13 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 1 Sep. 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 19,949 stories about harm among 109,555 counted on 1 Sep.
Armenia stood out: 53% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 21%. 18 in every 100 of the day's 109,555 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. A year earlier, on 1 September 2022, 21 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 18 today. Over August, 19 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 22 in August 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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