"This chapter investigates safety challenges journalists face when reporting on democratization conflicts and their impact on journalistic work. It builds on a comparative case study within the EU-funded project “Media, Conflict and Democratisation” (MeCoDEM), which explores journalistic work practices, ethics, roles, and working conditions across a set of democratization conflicts through interviews with journalists from Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa. Findings show that journalists experience safety threats at personal and organizational levels ranging from insults, intimidation and phone tapping to physical attacks, legal proceedings, and imprisonment. Journalists describe limitations to the professionalization of the working environment, which is perceived as providing neither sufficient training on safety measures nor proper safety equipment. Also highlighted is the psychological safety of journalists experiencing trauma from witnessing violence. The reported safety challenges greatly affect journalistic practices, roles and ethics. Based on these findings, the chapter outlines possible measures to increase the safety of journalists reporting on democratization conflicts." (Abstract)