This document discusses factors that influence global news coverage of disasters. It finds that disasters in populous, politically unstable countries that affect many people, like flooding or aftershocks, tend to receive more international coverage. Characteristics of the disaster itself explain more variance in coverage than country attributes. Most significantly, whether international news agencies cover a disaster explains over 18% of the variance in how many countries report on it. Regional biases also influence which disasters different parts of the world pay most attention to.