We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
227 of its 707 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Mannheim accounted for 148 of Germany's 227 stories about harm, carried by 267 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (115 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Grief in its coverage rose to about twice its own usual.
Dhaka accounted for 40 of Bangladesh's 80 stories about harm, carried by 27 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 5 times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
15 of its 17 stories (88%) were about people being harmed, usually 40%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
34 of its 48 stories (71%) were about people being harmed, usually 54%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Jerusalem accounted for 181 of Israel's 605 stories about harm, carried by 354 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (126 stories). Hunger was named in 94 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Vienna accounted for 30 of Austria's 43 stories about harm, carried by 55 outlets. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (20 stories).
Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (25 stories). Wildfires were named in 19 of its stories about harm, about 10 times usual.
Damascus accounted for 26 of Syria's 51 stories about harm, carried by 33 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
6 of Warsaw's 10 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories).
Earthquake was named in 26 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual, with tsunami. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Also named far more than usual: cyclone in Australia (122 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); hunger in Israel (94 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); wildfires in Japan (19 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); heatstroke in Philippines (16 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); respiratory illness in Ukraine (22 of its stories, about 8 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 3 Mar. 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 14,814 stories about harm among 87,657 counted on 3 Mar.
Stories about people being harmed made up 17 in every 100 of the day's 87,657 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 3 March 2024, 19 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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