We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
143 of its 206 stories (69%) were about people being harmed, usually 39%. Tehran accounted for 76 of Iran's 143 stories about harm, carried by 325 outlets. 69 of Tehran's 76 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (30 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
112 of its 333 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 23%. Moscow accounted for 66 of Russia's 112 stories about harm, carried by 84 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about 6 times the usual rate (8 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
367 of its 547 stories (67%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of people injured ran at more than ten times the usual rate (295 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
14 of its 47 stories (30%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories).
65 of its 158 stories (41%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Amsterdam accounted for 48 of the Netherlands' 65 stories about harm, carried by 48 outlets. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (15 stories).
125 of its 268 stories (47%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (87 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
15 of its 31 stories (48%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Pyongyang accounted for 13 of North Korea's 15 stories about harm, carried by 41 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (7 stories).
19 of its 36 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 25%. Reports of people affected ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
67 of its 205 stories (33%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (17 stories).
18 of its 56 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (9 stories).
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Afghanistan (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); flooding in Australia (29 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); drought in China (10 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); snowstorms in UK (49 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); road crashes in Nigeria (20 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 1 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 8,689 stories about harm among 48,088 counted on 1 Jan.
Mentions of flooding ran more than ten times their usual in Afghanistan's news. of the day's 48,088 news stories, 18 in every 100 were about people being harmed, as usual. the news turned to Iran for the second day running. Iran's news was 69% about people being harmed, against a usual 39%. On 1 January 2025, a year earlier, the share was 20 in every 100, against 18 today. Over December, 18 in every 100 stories were about people being harmed, against 18 in December 2024.
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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