We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
31 of its 52 stories (60%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Minsk accounted for 27 of Belarus' 31 stories about harm, carried by 54 outlets. 19 of Minsk's 27 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (27 stories).
71 of its 115 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 48%. Gaza accounted for 25 of Palestine's 71 stories about harm, carried by 25 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about twice the usual rate (28 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
31 of its 112 stories (28%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Reports of people killed ran at about 5 times the usual rate (17 stories). Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
107 of its 446 stories (24%) were about people being harmed, usually 17%. Ras Laffan accounted for 81 of Qatar's 107 stories about harm, carried by 85 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
32 of its 60 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Baghdad accounted for 18 of Iraq's 32 stories about harm, carried by 20 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
Beirut accounted for 70 of Lebanon's 85 stories about harm, carried by 79 outlets. Reports of people displaced ran at about twice the usual rate (42 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
8 of its 8 stories (100%) were about people being harmed, usually 16%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (7 stories).
30 of its 68 stories (44%) were about people being harmed, usually 32%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (12 stories).
23 of its 58 stories (40%) were about people being harmed, usually 27%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories).
36 of its 153 stories (24%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: cyclone in Australia (56 of its stories, about 8 times its usual); storms in Pakistan (27 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); outbreaks in UK (149 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); outbreaks in Ireland (13 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); landslides in Canada (13 of its stories, about 10 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 19 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 14,795 stories about harm among 82,585 counted on 19 Mar.
Belarus stood out: 60% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 19%. 18 in every 100 of the day's 82,585 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. A year earlier, on 19 March 2025, 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 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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