Full edition for public use. The principle of free movement allows citizens of the European Union (EU) to cross EU borders to live, work, or travel in other EU member states. It is one of the “four freedoms”, and a fundamental principle of the EU. However, since the so-called “refugee movements” in 2015, free movement within Europe and migration into the EU are fiercely debated topics, particularly in the media. This dataset allows users to compare the salience and sentiment of coverage pertaining to the two different concepts of migration (i.e. general migration vs. intra-European mobility), as well as to investigate the salience and corresponding sentiment of specific, migration-related media frames. The dataset was collected within the Horizon 2020 Project REMINDER using automated content analysis and consists of annotations of migration-related news articles published between 01.12.2017 and 06.11.2018 in Spain, UK, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Romania and includes media coverage from 81 media outlets. The data can be linked to the "REMINDER: Online-Panel Study on Migration and Mobility Attitudes 2017-2018" (doi: 10.11587/LBSMPQ).