The main aim of this study was to investigate the news coverage of Disability Issues in thernEthiopian state and private media. Agenda setting and framing were employed as theoreticalrnframeworks of the study. By taking two years data, the study was conducted on two selectedrnmajor state and private media outlets of the nation, namely the Addis Zemen and Addis AdmasrnNewspaper. Data used for the study was extracted from a total of 834 sample news editions (730rnfrom Addis Zemen and 104 from Addis Admas). The news editions were selected by usingrnavailability sampling techniques. Both content analysis and in-depth interview methods havernalso been employed in the study. Content analysis was made on sample news editions to gatherrnboth quantitative and qualitative data with reference to the amount, content and quality ofrndisability issue coverage by the media studied. In addition, in-depth interviews were made withrnDirector of FENAPD, editors and reporters who were frequently assigned to cover disabilityrnissues so as to gather qualitative data used to back the results found via the quantitative andrnqualitative content analysis method. The study revealed that disability news stories were notrngiven priority in the daily news agenda of both media outlets studied. Addis Zemen was found torngive more coverage to domestic disability stories than to those foreign ones. In this regard,rnalmost all of disability news stories of Addis Admas Newspaper were found to be dealing withrndomestic ones. Government officials were the dominant source of the news stories of the mediarnstudied. The nature of the disability stories were informative. Most of the disability stories of thernstudied media were success stories. The fairness and equality news frame was found to berndominant being applied in most of the disability stories of the media studied. The Political framernwas the second dominant news frame used. But, a difference was observed between the twornmedia in making use of the economic frame. This frame was the second dominant frame used inrnmany of disability stories of the Addis Zemen. Moreover the disability stories give more coveragernfor male disability stories than female. In addition visual impairment was the dominant type ofrndisability story that is given coverage. Based on these findings, some pertinent recommendationsrnhave been made.