We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
26 of its 51 stories (51%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. 8 of Valletta's 15 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's. Anger in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
379 of its 888 stories (43%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (188 stories). Its coverage was about three times as angry as the world's.
118 of its 381 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people affected ran at about 4 times the usual rate (42 stories). Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Reports of abductions ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories). Chikungunya was named in 12 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual, with dengue and meningitis. Its coverage was about one and a half times as fearful as the world's.
45 of its 85 stories (53%) were about people being harmed, usually 44%. Beirut accounted for 26 of Lebanon's 45 stories about harm, carried by 43 outlets. Reports of abductions ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories).
Qusra accounted for 34 of Palestine's 82 stories about harm, carried by 37 outlets. 19 of Qusra's 34 stories were about protests or strikes. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
26 of its 68 stories (38%) were about people being harmed, usually 20%. Reports of people displaced ran at about 7 times the usual rate (12 stories).
28 of its 95 stories (29%) were about people being harmed, usually 14%. Reports of arrests ran at about twice the usual rate (9 stories).
15 of its 69 stories (22%) were about people being harmed, usually 11%. Reports of people injured ran at about 4 times the usual rate (5 stories).
24 of its 88 stories (27%) were about people being harmed, usually 18%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (8 stories).
Also named far more than usual: flooding in Canada (64 of its stories, about three times its usual); poisoning in Indonesia (17 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in Switzerland (12 of its stories, about three times its usual); landslides in Pakistan (12 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); oil spill in Nigeria (13 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 3 Sep. 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 13,687 stories about harm among 71,516 counted on 3 Sep.
Malta stood out: 51% of its news was about people being harmed, usually 24%. 19 in every 100 of the day's 71,516 news stories were about people being harmed, as usual. In Canada's news, mentions of flooding ran about three times their usual. On 3 September 2025, a year earlier, the share was 18 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 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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