The main objective of this study was to examine media framing of Nations, Nationalities andrnPeoples day both in government and private print media outlets from 2010-2014. In order tornconduct this study, three newspapers: namely, the government owned Addis Zemen, and thernprivately owned Addis Admass and Reporter newspapers have been purposejitlly selected basedrnon ownership, access and large circulation oFnewspapers. The study also included newspapersrnpublished in November 24 to December 24 from 2010 to 2014. Accordingly, 135 news articlesrnwere analyzed by using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative content analysisrnand in-depth interview methods were dominantly used. Moreover, in-depth interviews werernconducted with 9 key informants from government and private media houses as well asji'om thernhouse of federation. This study also dominantly employed framing theOlY as a theoreticalrnframework. The findings of this study revealed the dominance of development frame over otherrnmedia frame types both in Addis Zemen and Reporter Amharic newspapers. However, in thernweekly, Addis Admass, advocacy frame was the most frequently employed frame type for therncoverage of the event. With reference to the coverage of NNPD of Ethiopia, the findings of thernresult indicated that Addis Zemen relatively published more news articles than Addis Admassrnand Reporter newspapers due to its daily published and government owned newspaper. Inrnaddition, Addis Zemen and Reporter Amharic framed and portrayed the day in a positive wayrnsince Addis Zemen is government controlled media, it has no space to criticize the evel1lrnwhereas, the weekly Addis Admass portrayed the event of NNPD of Ethiopia in a negative wayrnbecause it has relatively beller media freedom than the government owned media. This showsrnthotthere are biased views in the newspapers towards the celebration of the event. Moreover, inrnthe findings of the study, living peacejitlly in tolerance with NNP 's and building a single politicalrnand economic community in the country was found to be the dominant discussed theme both inrnAddis Zemen and Reporter (Amharic) newspapers.