The media is the fastest to reach the public, which is why they have a big social role to play in addition to informative. Since that they have a very large role in shaping public change and have a huge influence on daily politics, society as a whole, but also on the individual himself, the media encouraged the creation of the so-called media society. The importance of the media is mostly evident in crisis situations where some kind of threat to security is felt and causes fear and insecurity among citizens. One of them is certainly terrorism or terrorist attacks. For terrorist attacks, we can say that one type of communication and an essential element of media coverage, since terrorism and the media are in a kind of symbiosis and are unthinkable without each other. Many say that the media is an extended arm of terrorist activities and their depictions. Terrorist attacks as news are very important for all types of media, and thanks to the fact that these are very often "picturesque" events whose images leave no one indifferent, they are often too prevalent in television programs, newspaper columns or in other types of media, in such a way that exclusive stories from the scene that often contain incomplete and unverified information are sensationally brought, which are served to the audience to increase viewership or readership. Today's media are trying to portray terrorist attacks as a kind of spectacle and indirectly assist them in their terrorist activities. This paper will discuss the relationship between terrorism and the media, especially in the context of psychological and ethical aspects of media coverage of terrorist events. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the role of the Internet and social networks as means of communication that ensure speed and exclusivity. In the second part of the paper, two case studies are presented - the terrorist attack in Rijeka and the terrorist attack on Banske dvore.