The matter of culture has been used by the media to divide the public, promote fear, and create disembodied enemies. What is more, media play a significant role in shaping public interest, public opinion and political attitudes. Thus, there is a demand to understand the role of culture in the media, especially in the context of migration and growing multicultural societies. The current study consists of a content analysis of news coverage concerning migration across 7 European countries from

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... 3-2017. This study employs a dictionary approach to determine salience of culture-related framing using automated methods. Results show that on average, about 30% of migration-related news articles in the sample contain culture-related framing. In both corpora, Germany displays the highest levels of culture frame visibility with 35-39% saturation, while Romania remains the lowest with around 20% of articles containing relevant references. Average salience levels appeared at 29% and 30% in Corpus A and B respectively. It is discussed whether or not culture-frame salience relates to amount of interest in cultural topics within a national public discussion, and the relevance of national political structure on the presence of culture- related frames in migration news.