We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
31 of its 39 stories (79%) were about people being harmed, usually 49%. Niamey accounted for 26 of Niger's 31 stories about harm, carried by 49 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Tehran accounted for 264 of Iran's 389 stories about harm, carried by 413 outlets. 211 of Tehran's 264 stories were about protests or strikes. Natural hazards were named in 20 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's. Fear in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
21 of its 68 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 12%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (6 stories).
10 of its 24 stories (42%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
18 of Lagos' 36 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of refugees ran at about 5 times the usual rate (7 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
10 of its 16 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 38%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
18 of its 68 stories (26%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Reports of people killed ran at about 6 times the usual rate (9 stories).
Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (208 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
Illness was named in 12 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Havana accounted for 59 of Cuba's 95 stories about harm, carried by 108 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Ireland (54 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); illness in Spain (16 of its stories, about three times its usual); illness in Russia (12 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); cyclone in US (60 of its stories, about 5 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 30 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 15,776 stories about harm among 83,692 counted on 30 Jan.
Stories about people being harmed made up 19 in every 100 of the day's 83,692 stories, as usual. On 30 January 2025, a year earlier, the share was 20 in every 100, against 19 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 much 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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