We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
93 of its 200 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Conqueiros accounted for 47 of Portugal's 93 stories about harm, carried by 199 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (72 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
130 of its 261 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Dhaka accounted for 66 of Bangladesh's 130 stories about harm, carried by 108 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (37 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
64 of its 121 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Beirut accounted for 43 of Lebanon's 64 stories about harm, carried by 46 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
12 of its 24 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (6 stories).
195 of its 567 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (25 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Tehran accounted for 73 of Iran's 149 stories about harm, carried by 69 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
9 of its 11 stories (82%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories).
11 of its 42 stories (26%) were about people being harmed, usually 12%. 4 of Bishkek's 6 stories were about protests or strikes.
52 of its 211 stories (25%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of abductions ran at about 9 times the usual rate (5 stories).
4 of Dar es Salaam's 4 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories).
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Mexico (28 of its stories, about three times its usual); rabies in Vietnam (43 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); illness in Taiwan (11 of its stories, about three times its usual); heavy rain in Venezuela (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); poisoning in Russia (13 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 Oct. 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 18,836 stories about harm among 96,837 counted on 23 Oct.
Portugal's news was 46% about people being harmed, against a usual 14%. of the day's 96,837 news stories, 19 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about twice the usual rate. Abductions were reported at about twice the usual rate, most often about Israel and the US. In Mexico's news, mentions of flooding ran about three times their 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 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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