We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
Kyiv accounted for 117 of Ukraine's 177 stories about harm, carried by 160 outlets. Reports of arrests ran at about 7 times the usual rate (36 stories). Illness was named in 29 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
17 of its 31 stories (55%) were about people being harmed, usually 15%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (6 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
11 of its 11 stories (100%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people killed ran at about three times the usual rate (9 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
304 of its 853 stories (36%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of arrests ran at about three times the usual rate (20 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
165 of its 256 stories (64%) were about people being harmed, usually 42%. Damascus accounted for 151 of Syria's 165 stories about harm, carried by 269 outlets. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (115 stories).
25 of its 90 stories (28%) were about people being harmed, usually 9%. Reports of arrests ran at about 5 times the usual rate (12 stories). Its coverage was about twice as fearful as the world's.
257 of its 1,441 stories (18%) were about people being harmed, usually 12%. Reports of evacuations ran at more than ten times the usual rate (26 stories). Typhoon was named in 63 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with tornadoes, storms and tropical storm.
40 of its 53 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 65%. Kordofan accounted for 29 of Sudan's 40 stories about harm, carried by 24 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
88 of its 195 stories (45%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (35 stories).
67 of its 157 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 30%. Reports of people injured ran at about 6 times the usual rate (15 stories).
Also named far more than usual: typhoon in China (63 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); food poisoning in US (62 of its stories, about 7 times its usual); meningitis in UK (11 of its stories, about 4 times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 7 Jul. 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 13,546 stories about harm among 71,905 counted on 7 Jul.
Reports of evacuations ran at about twice the usual rate, most often about the US and China. Stories about people being harmed made up 19 in every 100 of the day's 71,905 stories, as usual. It was the second day running that the news turned to Ukraine. On 7 July 2025, a year earlier, the share was 20 in every 100, against 19 today. Ukraine stood out: 45% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 40%.
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 harsher 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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