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Media plays a key role in forced displacement or refugee alike situation and help to generate public awareness and support. At the same time, it plays a direct or indirect role to influence the national policy and foreign policy of a state. The role of the media in covering the news on refugee or forced migration influences international, regional, national and local actors. For a long time, Bangladesh is going through a forced migration crisis. Bangladesh is a host country of persecuted Rohingyas from Myanmar. The most recent influx of the Rohingya community from Myanmar took place in August 2017. Considering agenda-setting and news framing methods of media, this article is an attempt to understand the role of national media in representing the Rohingya crisis. Moreover, Johan Gultung’s peace and/or war journalism indicators help to find out the response of the national media towards the recent Rohingya influx. The purposive sampling method was followed to select the national media as a sample of this study which emphasized on versatility of news presentation style and acceptance among the mass people. Eventually, this article concludes that the agenda-setting and news framing of national media and its response in Bangladesh were peace journalism oriented.