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The article presents information about the representation of ethnicity in domestic news in the European Union countries and the Netherlands. Portrayal is undoubtedly influential in the shaping of people's opinions about ethnic minorities, if only because most people do not have direct contact and exchange with ethnic minorities and thus rely on hearsay and the media as main sources for their knowledge about ethnic minority groups and issues. Although many media monitoring reports have assessed the position of ethnic minorities in the news, there are few whose scope goes beyond the national borders. Moreover, the existing single-country studies cannot be compared as they use different selection criteria, and the few cross-national studies that exist usually focus on a selected group of approximately six countries. The advantage of focusing on domestic news is that it avoids the methodological problem of dealing with groups of different origin, and minority v. majority status in domestic v. international news.