We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
93 of its 139 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Kabul accounted for 62 of Afghanistan's 93 stories about harm, carried by 80 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at about 6 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
592 of its 2,225 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of evacuations ran at about 5 times the usual rate (31 stories). Cyclone was named in 287 of its stories about harm, about 5 times usual, with heavy rain, storms and storm surge.
Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (29 stories). Typhoon was named in 11 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
30 of its 38 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 59%. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
51 of its 124 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Tehran accounted for 39 of Iran's 51 stories about harm, carried by 56 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 7 times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
272 of its 1,198 stories (23%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (114 stories). Covid was named in 21 of its stories about harm, about 7 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
177 of its 493 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Seoul accounted for 124 of South Korea's 177 stories about harm, carried by 259 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (136 stories).
56 of its 72 stories (78%) were about people being harmed, usually 66%. Darfur accounted for 26 of Sudan's 56 stories about harm, carried by 36 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
56 of its 220 stories (25%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Bucharest accounted for 42 of Romania's 56 stories about harm, carried by 48 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (38 stories).
26 of its 66 stories (39%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: hiv in Lesotho (18 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); flooding in Indonesia (14 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); respiratory illness in Palestine (18 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flooding in Ghana (13 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); respiratory illness in Spain (11 of its stories, about 9 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 6 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 17,442 stories about harm among 100,827 counted on 6 Mar.
Reports of people falling ill ran at about twice the usual rate, most often about the US and Canada. 17 in every 100 of the day's 100,827 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. For the second day running, the news turned to Afghanistan. Afghanistan stood out: 67% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 45%. A year earlier, on 6 March 2024, 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 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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