Journalista is about the dangerous and improbable life of party girl, Cookie Hood, who is hired by CBS NEWS in Nicaragua for a weekend gig, and ends up breaking the IRAN- CONTRA scandal, and almost takes down the Reagan administration.

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We meet Cookie for the first time as she faces a firing squad.  The murder of a respected journalist lights the fuse of revolution.

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Cookie’s early life as Mrs. Scarface.  She parties her way into a job with CBS News bureau in Nicaragua.

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Cookie heads into the jungle looking for the war.  Unfortunately…she finds it.

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Cookie’s son talks about growing up in a war zone, then his mom faces her own death.

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Cookie leads a news team into the most remote parts of Nicaragua, in search of terror.

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Cookie saves the world from a nuclear holocaust, then saves her boys from their own personal disasters.

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At the peak of her powers, Cookie is taking flak from every direction, including an ambush from her biggest rival...the U.S government.

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