This thesis has attempted to assess the practice of Ethiopian private presses III coveringrncorruptio n related issues in the case of Repo rter and Addis Admas for the period of one year.rnContent anal ys is was employed as method. In-depth-interview was also made with thernnewspaper's staff. Both quantitative and qual itative methods were used to co llect the data. As arnresult, systematic random samplings of 67 arti cles were taken from Reporter and 36 from AddisrnAdmas newspapers. The analysis was done based on the type of sto ry, theme, source, placement,rnauthor and the case of individual vs. institutions. The data found from the interview as well asrnunderlying theoret ical frameworks were used to back up the analysis. Resul ts show thatrnembezzlemcnt was the leading form of corruption theme for both newspapers. Reporter andrnAddis Admas used anti -corrupt ion watchdogs as their major sources of story. From the researchrnit is possible to conclude that Reporter and Add is Admas gave more prominence to corruptionrnissues on institutional level which were led by government rather than on individual bases. Thernstudy further concluded that the biggest strength of Reporter and Addis Admas emanate from thernnews section as majority of the news stories were authored by their own staff reporters. Thernnewspapers' coverage of corruption was dominated by the news genre. In addition, sign ificantrnnumbers of the corruption stories on Reporter were placed on the middle pages of the newspaper,rnand Addis Aclmas gave more emphasis fo r corrupt ion related stories by placin g on the fro ntrnpages of the newspaper. From the overall finding of this research, it is poss ible to conclude thatrnReporter and Addis Admas seem somewhat responsible in fu lfill ing their duty as the watchdogrnof public inte rest by consistently repolting events of corrupt ion in the country even though theyrnfa iled to add ress important corruption themes, such as clintism, nepotism and bribery.