We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
25 of its 65 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Pyongyang accounted for 18 of North Korea's 25 stories about harm, carried by 53 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (24 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
115 of its 352 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Rio Grande do Sul accounted for 69 of Brazil's 115 stories about harm, carried by 148 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 8 times the usual rate (16 stories). Flooding was named in 75 of its stories about harm, about three times usual, with power cuts.
264 of its 689 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (37 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
111 of its 371 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
63 of its 118 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (26 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
39 of its 62 stories (63%) were about people being harmed, usually 52%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
49 of its 187 stories (26%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 5 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Gaza accounted for 378 of Palestine's 434 stories about harm, carried by 559 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about twice the usual rate (17 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (75 stories). Hurricane was named in 16 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual, with storms. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Nairobi accounted for 62 of Kenya's 139 stories about harm, carried by 67 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (15 stories). Cholera was named in 11 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual.
Also named far more than usual: building collapse in South Africa (26 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); cholera in Kenya (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); drought in Australia (21 of its stories, about three times its usual); earthquake in Canada (11 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); hurricane in Israel (16 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 8 May. 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 20,328 stories about harm among 112,749 counted on 8 May.
Reports of people falling ill ran at about three times the usual rate, most often about India and the US. of the day's 112,749 news stories, 18 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. Brazil's news mentioned flooding about three times as often as usual. North Korea's news was 38% about people being harmed, against a usual 20%. A year earlier, on 9 May 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 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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