We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
68 of its 128 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Freetown accounted for 61 of Sierra Leone's 68 stories about harm, carried by 147 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (36 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
44 of its 58 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 65%. Darfur accounted for 22 of Sudan's 44 stories about harm, carried by 41 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
19 of its 77 stories (25%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of people killed ran at about 4 times the usual rate (14 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
3 of Chikwawa's 6 stories were about protests or strikes.
69 of its 108 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Sanaa accounted for 31 of Yemen's 69 stories about harm, carried by 95 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Moscow accounted for 113 of Russia's 194 stories about harm, carried by 151 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 4 times the usual rate (10 stories). Snowstorms were named in 12 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with power cuts. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (37 stories). Chikungunya was named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. 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.
Jammu accounted for 23 of Kashmir's 46 stories about harm, carried by 16 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Gaza accounted for 214 of Palestine's 305 stories about harm, carried by 224 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (108 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
15 of its 33 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories).
Also named far more than usual: illness in United Arab Emirates (28 of its stories, about three times its usual); hiv in Ghana (16 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); landslides in Kenya (12 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); outbreaks in Japan (10 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); poisoning in Ukraine (18 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 27 Nov. 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 17,286 stories about harm among 93,208 counted on 27 Nov.
Reports of people freed or reunited, a sign of help, ran at about one and a half times the usual rate. 19 in every 100 of the day's 93,208 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Ghana's news, mentions of HIV ran about 7 times their usual. Sierra Leone stood out: 53% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 36%. On 27 November 2022, a year earlier, the share was 19 in every 100, the same as 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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