The principal aim of this study was to investigate how the Arab uprising was covered by thernselected newspapers. With the aim of examining the coverage, framing theory and politicalrneconomy of the mass media were employed as the theoretical frameworks of the study. By takingrna three month data, the study was conducted on three newspapers namely, Addis Zemen, thernAmharic Reporter and Fetehe. Quantitative content analysis, Qualitative content (textualrnanalysis) analysis and in-depth interview were the techniques used. While the quantitativerncontent analysis and the qualitative content analysis were applied to identify the frames andrnprovide supporting excerpts for the frames respectively, in-depth interview was employed tornback the results found from the two methods.rnThe study revealed that the conflict frame was predominantly used by the papers, Addis Zemenrnand Amharic Reporter. The next frame was the contingency frame which stands as the dominantrnframe of Fetehe. The use of the contingency frame varied between the private and governmentrnowned papers. While the two private papers claimed that there were causes that could have madernArab like uprising possible in Ethiopia, Addis Zemen argued that Ethiopia is free from thernproblems of the Arab uprising. Following contingency frame, the turn was for human interestrnframe where the newspapers largely entertained the personal behaviour of Muammar Gaddafi. Inrntheir Prognostic frame, Addis Zemen and Fetehe expressed pessimistic and optimistic view aboutrniirnthe consequences of the Arab uprising respectively while Amharic Reporter presented both.rnAttribution of responsibility was found in Fetehe and Amharic Reporter but not in Addis Zemen.rnFinally, the least used frame happened to be diagnostic frame where differences and similaritiesrnwere observed among the papers in conceptualizing the causes of the Arab uprising. What isrnmore, it was found out that the coverage of Addis Zemen and Fetehe was tilted towards ownerrninterest than the real depiction of the issue. Amharic Reporter tried to give a fair coverage. Basedrnon the finding, some recommendations were forwarded to mitigate the limitations.