We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
306 of its 677 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Moscow accounted for 156 of Russia's 306 stories about harm, carried by 276 outlets. 85 of Moscow's 156 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (97 stories). Landslides were named in 12 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
22 of its 40 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Grindavik accounted for 18 of Iceland's 22 stories about harm, carried by 42 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 8 times the usual rate (9 stories). Volcanic eruption was named in 17 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
176 of its 438 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of evacuations ran at about 4 times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Port-au-Prince accounted for 51 of Haiti's 72 stories about harm, carried by 110 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 8 times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
45 of its 96 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. 9 of Ngong Ping's 11 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (27 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
232 of its 712 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (72 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Mogadishu accounted for 22 of Somalia's 50 stories about harm, carried by 26 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
33 of its 45 stories (73%) were about people being harmed, usually 53%. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (12 stories).
17 of its 83 stories (20%) were about people being harmed, usually 10%. Reports of people affected ran at about 6 times the usual rate (9 stories).
49 of its 203 stories (24%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories).
Also named far more than usual: hunger in Ireland (20 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); cyclone in Australia (17 of its stories, about three times its usual); hiv in Canada (22 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); polio in Nigeria (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); house fires in UK (15 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 16 Mar. 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 10,943 stories about harm among 62,478 counted on 16 Mar.
In Iceland's news, mentions of volcanic eruption ran about 4 times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 18 in every 100 of the day's 62,478 stories, as usual. Russia's news was 45% about people being harmed, against a usual 32%. A year earlier, on 17 March 2023, 19 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 harsher 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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