Transformative character, projectable. Smart, quirky, attractive (if not necessarily conventionally handsome). Adapts very quickly.

Latina. Copy Editor at “The Connector.” Smart, astute, quick. More earnest than sassy. Always the smartest person in the room.

The editor-in-chief of “The Connector.” A little grizzled and a little effete. Alpha male but aware of his age

Fact checker at “The Connector.” Sharp. Has worked at the magazine longer than anybody, and lets everyone know it.

Black. A staff writer at “The Connector.”

Ethan’s older brother.

WASPy lawyer from an old firm. Enjoys the relative squalor of the magazine floor.

Dedicated reader and conspiracy theorist. Nuts, but robust. Chipper, relentlessly talkative and blunt, not stately.

Robin’s friend, looking to work at “The Connector.”

An editor at “The New York Press.”

Host of “Booknotes” on C-SPAN.

Aide to the Mayor of Jersey City.

An executive at a multinational corporation that has recently purchased “The Connector.”