The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical trend of crime news reporting of PolisrnEdna Ermijaw Newspaper in three governments of Ethiopia- IMPERIAL- DURG ANDrnEPRDF in the view of content analysis and structure of the news. This is not to mention the rnchallenges and opportunities faced by the pracvtioners.so the political implication of the rnthree governments. rnIn order to address the research questions, qualitative methodology was employed for the rnrequired data. In addition, content analyses on Polis Edna Ermijaw newspaper, that lasted rnfrom October, 1961upto October2019, was taken .An in depth interview was also made with rnfour purposefully selected participants for triangulation. The analyzed data revealed that rnPolis Ena Ermijaw newspaper was established with the purpose of informing, educating and rnentertaining the community, besides reporting crime news.rnThe study also revealed that the News Paper, which has been administered by the Ethiopian rnFederal Police Commission, followed traditional structure of media system in which most of rnits coverage was in crime news reporting during the three consecutive governments â€“rnImperial Era, Dreg & EPRDF. During imperial era, most of the crimes were cattle theft and rngambling by various plays. During the Dreg, political crime and killings were common. rnDuring EPRDF crimes increased in type and in number .e.g. Fraud, smuggling, corruption,rnkidnaping and human trafficking were seen.rnThe finding showed that the quality of journalist and the content of the news as well as the rnreadability of the newspaper were poor. During the imperial and Dreg Era the circulation of rnthe newspaper was very high. More than 150,000(one hundred fifty thousand) copies of polis rnena eremejaw were used to be printed every two weeks. In addition, the study indicated that rnthe golden period of the newspaper was the imperial era