We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
34 of its 61 stories (56%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Baghdad accounted for 18 of Iraq's 34 stories about harm, carried by 52 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
138 of its 207 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 53%. Gaza accounted for 81 of Palestine's 138 stories about harm, carried by 100 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
85 of its 172 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 37%. Dhaka accounted for 48 of Bangladesh's 85 stories about harm, carried by 40 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about 9 times the usual rate (34 stories).
25 of its 72 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 6 times the usual rate (6 stories).
31 of its 63 stories (49%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (22 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
265 of its 652 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 31%. Reports of abductions ran at about three times the usual rate (62 stories). Its coverage was about three times as fearful as the world's.
45 of its 236 stories (19%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (10 stories). Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
170 of its 481 stories (35%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
22 of its 77 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. 5 of Lima's 9 stories were about protests or strikes.
28 of its 75 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Punta Cana accounted for 20 of the Dominican Republic's 28 stories about harm, carried by 24 outlets.
Also named far more than usual: earthquake in Italy (12 of its stories, about 9 times its usual); flooding in Ghana (12 of its stories, about three times its usual); road crashes in Mexico (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); tornadoes in US (338 of its stories, about three times its usual); drownings in Australia (10 of its stories, about 7 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 14 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 16,674 stories about harm among 92,373 counted on 14 Mar.
In Iraq, 56% of the news was about people being harmed, where 26% is usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 18 in every 100 of the day's 92,373 stories, as usual. A year earlier, on 14 March 2024, 17 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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