Journalists play a vital role in reporting issues of public interest, politics, economics, social issues, and conflict. However, journalists sometimes face a lot of risks in relation to their reportage. Hence, the issue of their safety has created an important knowledge vacuum in the existing literature. Journalists and other media actors are being murdered, tortured, attacked, abducted, detained, threatened, harassed, and intimidated on account of their professional activities. Incidentally, journalism practice is becoming highly risky due to the unabated threats, kidnappings, and killings of journalists and other media staff all over the world. Though every journalist is vulnerable to violence and attacks, international journalists covering conflict in Borno State are more prone to psychological and physical threats. These journalists are not familiar with this conflict zone and also have challenges with weather. Within this context, this study examines the psychological and physical safety of international journalists covering the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, Nigeria. The study adopts Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as its primary method of scientific inquiry. Seven international journalists that frequently visit Borno to cover the Boko Haram crisis are selected for the study. The study adopts purposive sampling because IPA researchers usually use the purposive sampling technique to generate a fairly homogeneous sample to achieve the goal of a study. Theoretically, cultural theory and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) model serve as the studys framework. The findings of the study show that there is a psychological and physical threat to foreign journalists covering conflict in Borno State.