We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
97 of its 123 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 67%. el Fasher accounted for 41 of Sudan's 97 stories about harm, carried by 145 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (48 stories). Train derailment was named in 24 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
34 of its 69 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (10 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
78 of its 179 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Minsk accounted for 50 of Belarus' 78 stories about harm, carried by 180 outlets. 39 of Minsk's 50 stories were about protests or strikes.
20 of its 79 stories (25%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (6 stories).
154 of its 191 stories (81%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Kfar Kila accounted for 68 of Lebanon's 154 stories about harm, carried by 264 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (120 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.
62 of its 71 stories (87%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Kivu accounted for 37 of Rwanda's 62 stories about harm, carried by 56 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (50 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
26 of its 90 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. 9 of Athens' 15 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (12 stories).
26 of Berlin's 36 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Jerusalem accounted for 234 of Israel's 626 stories about harm, carried by 439 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 5 times the usual rate (69 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
30 of its 44 stories (68%) were about people being harmed, usually 43%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (5 stories).
Also named far more than usual: power cuts in Ireland (69 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); plague in China (30 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); power cuts in UK (72 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); landslides in US (59 of its stories, about 6 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 26 Jan. 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 8,983 stories about harm among 46,034 counted on 26 Jan.
Reports of peace efforts, a sign of help, ran at about twice the usual rate. 20 in every 100 of the day's 46,034 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. Refugees were reported at about three times the usual rate, most often about Israel and the US. the news turned to Sudan for the second day running. Mentions of power cuts ran about 5 times their usual in Ireland's news. This week the news turned most often to Colombia, on 3 of 7 days; help rose on 3 of them.
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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