We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
136 of its 297 stories (46%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Balikesir accounted for 65 of Türkiye's 136 stories about harm, carried by 201 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (85 stories). Building collapse was named in 13 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
40 of its 58 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 55%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 25 of Haiti's 40 stories about harm, carried by 53 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (14 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
38 of its 127 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (19 stories).
73 of its 161 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (19 stories).
16 of its 46 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (13 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Gaza accounted for 100 of Palestine's 153 stories about harm, carried by 197 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
47 of its 123 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (16 stories).
19 of its 53 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (5 stories).
20 of its 22 stories (91%) were about people being harmed, usually 61%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
123 of its 504 stories (24%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (14 stories).
Also named far more than usual: wildfires in Australia (37 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); covid in Mexico (10 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); heavy rain in Canada (19 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); snowstorms in India (15 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); volcanic eruption in US (52 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 24 Dec. 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 13,185 stories about harm among 72,330 counted on 24 Dec.
Türkiye stood out: 46% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 22%. 18 in every 100 of the day's 72,330 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. A year earlier, on 25 December 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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