We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
80 of its 155 stories (52%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Ras Laffan accounted for 65 of Qatar's 80 stories about harm, carried by 68 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 8 times the usual rate (68 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
52 of its 85 stories (61%) were about people being harmed, usually 50%. Kabul accounted for 30 of Afghanistan's 52 stories about harm, carried by 86 outlets. Reports of refugees ran at about three times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
213 of its 858 stories (25%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (120 stories). Drownings were named in 57 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with storms, heatstroke and wildfires.
47 of its 154 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of arrests ran at about 4 times the usual rate (31 stories).
24 of its 62 stories (39%) were about people being harmed, usually 13%. Budapest accounted for 19 of Hungary's 24 stories about harm, carried by 28 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at more than ten times the usual rate (15 stories).
108 of its 278 stories (39%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
31 of its 149 stories (21%) were about people being harmed, usually 12%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (5 stories).
24 of its 129 stories (19%) were about people being harmed, usually 11%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories).
20 of its 90 stories (22%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. 4 of Causeway Bay's 7 stories were about protests or strikes.
Ituri accounted for 17 of the DR Congo's 28 stories about harm, carried by 15 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
Also named far more than usual: dengue in Sri Lanka (11 of its stories, about 5 times its usual); flu in Australia (39 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); hunger in Israel (26 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); storms in UK (65 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); helicopter crash in US (11 of its stories, about three times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 23 Jun. 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 13,869 stories about harm among 76,914 counted on 23 Jun.
Qatar stood out: 52% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 14%. 18 in every 100 of the day's 76,914 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In France's news, mentions of drownings ran more than ten times their usual. the news turned to Qatar for the second day running.
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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