While stress ing the importance of the media's struggle against corru ption. one shou ld askrnwhether or not the Ethiopian med ia houses make an effol1 to uncover co rruption cases in .rntimely manner so that the public can make an informed dec ision. This thesis has.rntherefore, attempted to assess the content corruption coverage by the Amharic bi-weekly,rnReporter fo r the period of two years. Content analysis was employed as the majorrnmethod. In-depth-interview was a lso made wi th two of the newspaper's staff. Bothrnquanti tat ive and qua li tative methods were used to collect the data. As a result. systematicrnra ndom sampling of 216 artic les were taken from all the 159 edi tions of the newspaper.rnThe analys is was done based on the type of story, theme, source, placement, au thor andrnthe case of individual vs. institutions. The data found from the interview as well asrnunderlyi ng theoretical frameworks were used to back up the analysis. Results sho thatrnembezzlement was the leading form of corru pt ion theme. Reporter used anti-co rrupti onrnwatchdogs as its maj or sources of sto ry. From the research it is possible to conclude thatrnReporter gave more prominence to corruption issues on institutional level rather than onrnindividual bases. The study further concluded that the biggest st rength of Reporterrnemanates from the news section as majority of the news stories were authored by its ownrnstaff reporters. The newspaper's coverage of corruption was dominated by the ncwsrngenre. In addi tion, significant number of the corruption stories were placed on the midd lernpages of the newspaper. From the overall find ing of this research, it is po~sib l e tornconclude that Reporter seems somewhat respons ib le in fulfilling its du ty as the FourthrnEstate by consistently re porting events of corruption in the country.