This chapter explores the first-hand encounters of Kenya-based journalists with state and non-state surveillance mechanisms. The study employed a phenomenological research design to look into surveillance among 28 local and foreign journalists based in Kenya. The journalists were purposively sampled for their report of extremist violence. The study revealed that journalists are afraid of surveillance. This fear has two forms: surveillance by the government and its security agencies and surveillance by terrorists and their sympathisers. This surveillance extended to the family and close associates of the journalists. Government security agencies have engaged in digital and physical monitoring of journalists’ work, as well as their professional and private communications. The journalists observed that, from the government’s standpoint, they were critical players in counterterrorism programmes/initiatives because they served as tools of propaganda as well as feeding intelligence on possible terror attacks. For the terrorists, journalists were seen not only as potential mouthpieces for advancing legitimacy through publishing information on their cause and justification of the said cause and propaganda but also as sources of information to advance their ends because terrorism, in itself, is a communicative act that employs the mass media to impart fear and intimidation among populations, even those remotely located from the scene of the violence. It was therefore in the interest of both the security agencies and terrorists to tap into the communication networks of the journalists—both socially and digitally. Overall, this is against both constitutional and international conventions on human rights, specifically provisions on the privacy and handling of personal data. Many of the journalists interviewed said the government, specifically security agencies fighting terrorism, tapped into their communication, especially mobile phone calls, text messages, and e-mail correspondences. This surveillance went beyond the communication assemblage, where both foreign and local journalists based in Kenya said that the authorities monitored their social lives and movements. Additionally, their newsroom colleagues were sometimes used by security agencies to spy on the stories that they were writing related to terrorism. Some foreign journalists said that they were threatened with deportation, and others were actually deported from the country. The freedom to privacy for journalists reporting on terror-related events was contravened against constitutional and universal human rights declarations—not only by the government but also by terrorists. This placed them in a vulnerable position. Thus, as a coping mechanism, some journalists have changed how they communicate or interact with people.