We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
134 of its 250 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Istanbul accounted for 100 of Türkiye's 134 stories about harm, carried by 160 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (83 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
192 of its 944 stories (20%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. 74 of Paris' 131 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (31 stories).
15 of its 27 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of people affected ran at about 8 times the usual rate (10 stories).
51 of its 128 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories).
36 of its 45 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Abyei accounted for 34 of South Sudan's 36 stories about harm, carried by 61 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (32 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.
489 of its 613 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 63%. Tehran accounted for 260 of Iran's 489 stories about harm, carried by 405 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (41 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
388 of its 532 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 65%. Gaza accounted for 290 of Palestine's 388 stories about harm, carried by 265 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (97 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
140 of its 245 stories (57%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (23 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
120 of its 150 stories (80%) were about people being harmed, usually 59%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (76 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
Baghdad accounted for 32 of Iraq's 55 stories about harm, carried by 50 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: illness in Japan (22 of its stories, about three times its usual); heavy rain in Ireland (14 of its stories, about three times its usual); heavy rain in Canada (15 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 29 Jan. 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 17,180 stories about harm among 96,438 counted on 29 Jan.
The news turned to Türkiye for the second day running. 18 in every 100 of the day's 96,438 news stories were about people being harmed, below the usual 19. In Ireland's news, mentions of heavy rain ran about three times their usual. Türkiye stood out: 54% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 30%. A year earlier, on 29 January 2023, 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 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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