Assuming that the attack on the Charlie Hebdo has led to a change in media coverage of immigrants in France, this thesis through the method of critical discourse analysis investigates the moment of the change and how political discourse in the media and social conditions influenced it. The main theory basis are the method of Norman Fairclough connections between discursive, social practices and text analysis combined with Van Dijks theories of racism in media coverage of immigrants. The issue of immigration is one of the major problems and is the subject of many debates, and thus one of the dominant issues in public discourse in France. By reporting on immigrants, the media reflects and maintains a certain image and position in the perception of the public. The therroris attack on Charlie Hebdo has opened up the possibility of changing images of immigrants through media discourse. Some of the main goals of critical discourse analysis is research of language because it is through language that inequalities are expressed in a society and legitimized through discourse.The idea for this research stems from the fact that media discourse can be the driving force behind creating and changing perceptions of the social phenomenos, in this case of immigrants, and larger media events may become the cause of the image change in public perception. In this research the focus is on racism and Islamophobia as a discourse practice in the media reporting in mainstream French Internet portal of newspapers: Le Figaro, Le Monde, Libération, Le Parisien. Critical discourse analysis was conducted in selected articles in the period of one month after the attack on Charlie Hebdo between January 7, 2015 and February 7, 2015.