We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
41 of its 49 stories (84%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Yatenga accounted for 18 of Burkina Faso's 41 stories about harm, carried by 35 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (14 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.
127 of its 334 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Nairobi accounted for 77 of Kenya's 127 stories about harm, carried by 68 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 5 times the usual rate (19 stories). Flooding was named in 57 of its stories about harm, about three times usual, with heavy rain, landslides and drought.
95 of its 190 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
34 of its 97 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. 4 of Yerevan's 8 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
46 of its 60 stories (77%) were about people being harmed, usually 63%. Darfur accounted for 18 of Sudan's 46 stories about harm, carried by 17 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Port-au-Prince accounted for 38 of Haiti's 52 stories about harm, carried by 87 outlets. 24 of Port-au-Prince's 38 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (18 stories).
Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (12 stories). Outbreaks were named in 13 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual, with food poisoning and poisoning. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
12 of its 40 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
17 of its 42 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (6 stories).
57 of its 147 stories (39%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Heatwave was named in 16 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual.
Also named far more than usual: heatwave in Bangladesh (16 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); malaria in Liberia (11 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); covid in Spain (15 of its stories, about three times its usual); heatwave in Thailand (12 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); malaria in Nigeria (23 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 26 Apr. 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 18,549 stories about harm among 107,805 counted on 26 Apr.
It was the second day running that the news turned to Burkina Faso. of the day's 107,805 news stories, 17 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Burkina Faso stood out: 84% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 48%. On 27 April 2023, a year earlier, the share was 18 in every 100, against 17 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 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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