{
  "topic": {
    "type": "choice",
    "instructions": "Which category does this news report belong to?",
    "criteria": {
      "conflict": "armed conflict, war, military operations, attacks, strikes on targets",
      "security": "internal security, police, crime, terrorism response, cybersecurity, intelligence services. NOT everything that merely sounds dangerous.",
      "politics": "government, elections, diplomacy, legislation, parties, court rulings on political matters",
      "finance": "economy, markets, companies, currency, trade, business crime",
      "technology": "technology, IT, AI, science, space",
      "health": "medicine, disease, healthcare system, epidemics",
      "humanitarian": "displacement, hunger, aid operations, human-rights situation, refugee and civilian suffering in a crisis",
      "disaster": "NEU v2. earthquakes, floods, storms with damage, fires, industrial and traffic accidents with casualties. The EVENT itself; the aid response to it is humanitarian.",
      "infrastructure": "NEU v2. power supply, transport networks, water, telecoms, pipelines: outages, failures, maintenance, expansion. Drought as a supply problem belongs here, drought as a famine belongs to humanitarian.",
      "off-topic": "sport, entertainment, celebrities, lifestyle, plain weather forecasts without an event, and everything that is not a real article"
    }
  },
  "impact": {
    "type": "score",
    "instructions": "How far do the consequences of this event reach?",
    "criteria": [
      "single person or single place",
      "one city or one organisation",
      "one country or one sector",
      "several countries or a whole industry",
      "global or systemic"
    ]
  },
  "violence": {
    "type": "noul",
    "instructions": "Does this news report describe physical violence against people?",
    "criteria": {
      "true": "killing, wounding, attack, assault, bombardment against people",
      "false": "everything else, including threats, weapons deals and verbal attacks"
    }
  },
  "civilian_harm": {
    "type": "score",
    "instructions": "How severely are civilians affected?",
    "criteria": [
      "civilians not affected",
      "civilians affected indirectly (restrictions, supply)",
      "few civilians injured or displaced",
      "many civilians affected, deaths",
      "mass casualties among civilians"
    ]
  }
}