We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
32 of its 42 stories (76%) were about people being harmed, usually 45%. Port-au-Prince accounted for 25 of Haiti's 32 stories about harm, carried by 33 outlets. 16 of Port-au-Prince's 25 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of abductions ran at about 5 times the usual rate (5 stories).
32 of its 85 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories). Tsunami was named in 23 of its stories about harm, about 6 times usual.
58 of its 114 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Tehran accounted for 36 of Iran's 58 stories about harm, carried by 35 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
38 of its 102 stories (37%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Reports of abductions ran at about 8 times the usual rate (13 stories).
101 of its 335 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 22%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (72 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
Damascus accounted for 31 of Syria's 55 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
9 of Istanbul's 18 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (14 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
49 of its 92 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 33%. Reports of people affected ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
42 of its 124 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (12 stories).
HIV was named in 10 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: heavy rain in Thailand (13 of its stories, about 10 times its usual); natural hazards in South Korea (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); hiv in Russia (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); wildfires in UK (43 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); flu in India (21 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 4 Apr. 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 16,810 stories about harm among 94,956 counted on 4 Apr.
In Papua New Guinea's news, mentions of the tsunami ran about 6 times their usual. Stories about people being harmed made up 18 in every 100 of the day's 94,956 stories, as usual. Haiti's news was 76% about people being harmed, against a usual 45%. A year earlier, on 4 April 2024, 18 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 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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