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News is presented not only through printed media but also in the form of online media. Many kinds of news such as, economy, business, law, politic and etc. In presenting a news can use a language that is fairly rough and very fine language. In this study, news is presented in the form of online news. Euphemism plays an important role in presenting news in order to reveal things that are deemed inappropriate. The function of euphemism is to replace or cover up other words and expressions considered taboo and rude. The objective of this study is to investigate the types of euphemism used in political news in online mass media. This study will be classified into five types (Allan & Burridge 1991) namely ; (a) shortening; (b) circumlocution; (c) remodeling; (d) semantic change; (e) borrowing. In line with this idea, euphemism can be used to make speech or text more polite. The data of this study will be collected by applying a documentary technique.