We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
92 of its 122 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Grindavik accounted for 79 of Iceland's 92 stories about harm, carried by 160 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 4 times the usual rate (26 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
110 of its 241 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. 11 of Sam Cheung's 16 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (62 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
90 of its 162 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 34%. Jammu accounted for 52 of Kashmir's 90 stories about harm, carried by 38 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
134 of its 249 stories (54%) were about people being harmed, usually 41%. Tehran accounted for 81 of Iran's 134 stories about harm, carried by 228 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about three times as grief-stricken as the world's.
45 of its 66 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 56%. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (11 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
37 of its 72 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Reports of evacuations ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Typhoon was named in 16 of its stories about harm, about three times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
20 of its 38 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 5 times the usual rate (5 stories).
89 of its 323 stories (28%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (29 stories).
47 of its 238 stories (20%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (8 stories).
Also named far more than usual: heatwave in India (222 of its stories, about three times its usual); flooding in Armenia (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flooding in New Zealand (25 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); typhoon in Philippines (16 of its stories, about three times its usual); road crashes in Australia (18 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 30 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 19,073 stories about harm among 110,550 counted on 30 May.
No day had a lower share of stories about people being harmed since 26 April 2024. Stories about people being harmed made up 17 in every 100 of the day's 110,550 stories, below the usual 18. Iceland's news was 75% about people being harmed, against a usual 25%. For the second day running, the news turned to Iceland. A year earlier, on 31 May 2023, 17 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, 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 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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