We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
64 of its 90 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 52 of Haiti's 64 stories about harm, carried by 164 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (16 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
83 of its 217 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. 7 of Lantao's 9 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (36 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as warm as the world's.
60 of its 127 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 29%. Kampala accounted for 43 of Uganda's 60 stories about harm, carried by 73 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (20 stories). HIV was named in 25 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual.
51 of its 225 stories (23%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
49 of its 69 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 51%. Damascus accounted for 25 of Syria's 49 stories about harm, carried by 47 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
45 of its 134 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
17 of its 34 stories (50%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. 11 of Tbilisi's 13 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (8 stories).
42 of its 180 stories (23%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. 22 of Torun's 25 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
22 of its 37 stories (59%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
77 of its 261 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
Also named far more than usual: poisoning in Laos (13 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); tornadoes in Azerbaijan (14 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); heavy rain in Ireland (24 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); cholera in Ghana (10 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); storms in Canada (36 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 20 Nov. 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 18,140 stories about harm among 104,673 counted on 20 Nov.
For the second day running, the news turned to Haiti. Stories about people being harmed made up 17 in every 100 of the day's 104,673 stories, as usual. Mentions of HIV ran about 7 times their usual in Uganda's news. In Haiti, 71% of the news was about people being harmed, where 38% is usual. A year earlier, on 21 November 2023, 18 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, 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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