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breaniebree · 5 years ago

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List of ASC Original Characters

Question from fanfiction.net from DetroitNate -- Thanks for this story, it is one of my top five hands down. Also, I agree with you about blvnk, that has always been how I've seen Harry and Ginny. Thanks for a refresher course on Zee's parents sometimes it is difficult to remember who is who, which brings up another questionis there somewhere that I could see a list of your OCs, kind of like your brief explanation of Misha and Sorcha? Either thanks for the story it continues to be wonderful.

Thank you! I do have a lot of original people I have introduced, in passing or to give characters to them. I literally have an entire document saved ASC Character Lists to help me keep track. I will post it here the way I have it written. It’s a LONG LIST! Most may have just been mentioned, but it helps me keep track in case I have to go back and like oh right, that person did this!

Zahira Zelena Zacarias (Zee) - 9th April, 1964:

Zee’s family is as follows:

The Jacksons:

Colten (Muggle) and Florence (Pureblood witch) Jackson, Grandma and Grandpa

Daughter Magnolia Jackson Zacarias (deceased) married to Michael (Misha) Zacarias with one daughter: Zahira Zelena Zacarias

The Zacarias’:

Ivan and Anya Zacarias Baba & Deda (Muggles - Ivan was the soldier in WWII with the motorbike)

1. Michael (Misha) m. Magnolia Jackson Zacarias (d) m. Sorcha Brown Zacarias, Papa and Grandmama

(a) Zahira Zelena Zacarias

2. Olga Zacarias Petrov m. Dimtri Petrov

(a) Mikhail Petrov m. Ana Ivanov

(i) Yuri Petrov

(b) Mila Petrov Sokolov m. Nicholas Sokolov

(i) Nastasia Sokolov

(ii) Dinara Sokolov

3. Sasha Zacarias Blok m. Yerik Blok

(a) Tanya Blok Fedorov m. Alek Fedorov

(i) Eva and Irina (twin girls identical)

(b) Tatiana Blok eng. Iosif Kuznetsov

The Browns:

Callum and Fiona Brown

Brian Brown m. Jocasta Fitzgibbons

(a) Dougal Brown m. Ellen Smith

(i) Jenny Brown

(ii) Ian Brown

Sorcha Brown m. Misha Zacarias

(a) Zahira Zelena Zacarias

The Weasley family tree

Arthur’s parents — Septimus and Cedrella nee Black Weasley

Bilius Weasley m. Lucretia NLN

(a) Septimus Weasley eng. Bianca Sousa

(b) Gaius Weasley m. Jillian Kinders

(d) Tiberius Weasley

Alphard Weasley m. Maureen NLN

(a) Caradoc Weasley m. Holly Gibbons

(i) Jeffrey Weasley

(b) Valerius Weasley

(d) Maximus Weasley

(e) Marius Weasley

Arthur Weasley m. Molly Prewett

(a) William Arthur Weasley

(b) Charles Septimus Weasley

(d) Frederick Fabian Weasley

(e) George Gideon Weasley

(f) Ronald Bilius Weasley

(g) Ginevra Molly Weasley

Althea & Xander Papakonstantinou:

(a) Niko Alexander & Nilo Alexander Papakonstantinou

(b) Phoenix Nikolas Papakonstantinou

(d) Calla Gallina Papakonstantinou

Apollo & Medea Castellanos

(a) Daphne Grace Castellanos

(b) Circe Althea Castellanos

WIZENGAMOT COUNCIL MEMBERS:

Lady Lucrectia Dettweiler

Lord Marcus Bulstrode

Lord Tiberius Ogden

Lord Aaron Mackelbee

CWM Norton

CWM Anderson

CWM Himmler

WOLVES:

Adrian Roberts (Alpha of Southwestern England)

Echo Simpson (Alpha of Northwestern England)

Ethan Simpson (son of Echo)

Maia Roberts (wife of Adrian)

Hawk Roberts

Emily Roberts

Nikita Roberts

Odin Roberts

Rafe Roberts

Clara Roberts (deceased)

Conan NLN

Volk NLN

Ivory NLN

Cami NLN

Daimon NLN (Alpha of Southeastern in England)

Rune NLN (Alpha of Northeastern in England)

Romeo NLN

Summer NLN

Other Random Mentioned Characters:

George & Margaret Morrison - Sirius’ next door neighbours (Zee’s cottage)

Persephone - name of Sirius’ owl

Greta Catchlove - Sirius’ ex in school

Glenda Chittock - Sirius’ ex in school

Sarah Anderson - Sirius’ ex in school

Darcy Floras - Wizengamot Administrative Office

Professor Dragomir - Durmstrang Dark Arts professor (Althea’s old prof & confidant)

Robyn NLN - ex lover of Remus

Annalise Zuszack Davies - ex lover of Sirius

Veronica Riley - ex lover of Remus, Accidental Magical Reversal Squad

Persephone NLN - bridesmaid at Althea’s wedding, ex lover of Sirius

Connor McGee - Tonks’ ex boyfriend

Amanda NLN- ex lover of Remus

Carolos Santorini - head of dragon reserve in Sicily

Sareena Sahadi, curse breaker in Roman catacombs

Jonathon Pepper - Tonks’ ex boyfriend and lover

Jennifer Berry - real estate agent who sold Zee her cottage, ex lover of Sirius

Phillipe Montgomery - professor on werewolf mythology

Ava Montgomery - wife of Phillippe Montgomery and werewolf

Ferryweather - ex member of Hogwarts Board of Governors (who Sirius replaces)

Tripp Forrester - Agent of the DRCMC

Brandon NLN - 7th year Hufflepuff student in Harry’s second year

Will Matthews - Seamus’ first boyfriend

Maggie Cumberland - woman who speaks and outs Lockhart on stealing memories

Na’eemah Hickey - Egyptian Mind Healer who helps Ginny

Mary Raffigan - historian in the Department of History; professor of History of Magic at Hogwarts

Agent Minnow - Being Division of DRCMC

Kata Novak - Croatian pureblood kidnapped by DE’s

Harley Mills - Harry’s ex girlfriend

Tucker - ranch hand on Colt and Flo’s ranch

Calvin - ranch hand on Colt and Flo’s ranch

Trotsky NFN - dragon handler on Romanian reserve

Aims NFN - dragon handler on Romanian reserve

Santana NFN - dragon handler on Romanian reserve

Juliette Léandre - Département de Coopération Magique Internationale

Madame Simone Richelieu - President of the Ministère des Affaires Magiques del la France

Jericho Jones - International Confederation of Wizards

Katherine Thomas - International Magical Office of Law

LiMei Lee - Ambassador to Hong Kong Mófǎ bù

Liam O’Kelly - journalist for Irish Prophet

Leonoardo Fanucci - Rome’s famous fashion designer

Dimo Radkov - best friend of Viktor Krum

Andrei Ankov - best friend of Viktor Krum

Professor Penkov - Durmstrang history professor

Iglika Krum - Viktor’s younger sister

Desislava Krum - Viktor’s younger sister

Boyana Krum - Viktor’s mother

Kosta Krum - Viktor’s father

Danny Evangeline - editor of the Daily Prophet

Princess Sapphira - Mermaid from Greece

Agent Barrow NFN - beast division of DRCMC

Elizabeth Walters - werewolf support services

King Taliesin of the Fae

William Clovenfield of the Vampire Confederacy of Europe

Henry Jacks, personal assistant of Ludo Bagman

Dobson NFN, DRCMC

Tripp Forrester, Agent of DRCMC

Bura Visnjic - magical creature reserve near Fiordland National Park in New Zealand

Abioye NLN - magizoologist from the reserve

Zhang NFN - magizoologist from the reserve

Henry Richardson - Head of the Department of Education

Dmitri Horvat - Balkan Auror, friend of Dumbledore

Miranda Jameson - Head of the Department of Magical Cooperation

Board of Governors:

Sirius Black

Lucius Malfoy - ARRESTED - replaced with Richard Macmillan

Marcus Bulstrode - ARRESTED - replaced with Charlotte Ogden

Julius Abbot

John Matthias

Josephine Fawley

Bernice Caulder

Octavius Greengrass

Augusta Longbottom

Castor Parkinson

Elphias Doge

Lucretia Dettweiler

Crann Bethadh Cabinet (Tree of Life Cabinet aka CBC):

Amelia Bones (Minister)

Albus Dumbledore (ICW rep)

Zahira Zacarias (DRCMC rep)

Walter Barrow (DRCMC rep)

Adrian Roberts (Wolf rep)

Echo Simpson (Wolf rep)

Rune Rogers (Wolf rep)

Daimon Adams (Wolf rep)

William Clovenfield (Vampire rep)

Alice Langdon (Vampire rep)

Jericho Jones (ICW rep)

Katherine Thomas (magical law rep)

King Taliesan (Fae rep)

Brigit (Fae rep)

Colleen Sanders (Veela rep)

Aurors:

Hugh Arnett A3

Natalie Atwell A3

Gregson NFN - deceased

Bishop NFN - deceased

Lewis NFN - deceased

Davis NFN - deceased

Jane NFN - A2

Campbell NFN - A2

Leonard NFN - A2

Higgins NFN - A1, Tonks’ partner

Hogwarts Students in Harry’s Year:

Gryffindor Girls - Sophie Roper, Natalia Monroe

Slytherin Girls - Ophelia Rowle

Students in Ginny’s year:

Gryffindor Girls - Maisie Wendall, Imogen Landers, Katherine Joy Alcott (KJ), Freya Sloane

Gryffindor Boys - David Gunderson

Hufflepuff Girls - Edith Carlyle, Francesca Wood (Oliver’s cousin)

Ravenclaw Girls - Chloe Cunningham, Morag Campbell, Dinah Fox, Bettina Addersworth

Third Year Students in 1995:

Hufflepuff - Mr NFN Donovan, Miss NFN Payne

Ravenclaw - Mr NFN Sahni, Miss NFN Jameson

New Students 1995-1996 school year:

Slytherin Boys - Julian Norton

Slytherin Girls - Mila St James - half-vampire, Ciara Casey - half-fae

Ravenclaw Girls - Sari Danson - wolf

Gryffindor Boys - Maximus O’Ryan - wolf, Jack Wolf - wolf

Hufflepuff Girls - Tara Brady - half-fae

Bellarosa Zabini Husbands:

Signore Antonio Zabini, Baron of Sardinia

Siegneur Tristian Beauchamp, Comte de Marseille

Lord Stephen Barkley, Earl of Suffolk

Sir David Sanders

Lord Jason Stanford, Earl of Kent

Hope this helps!

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'Younger's Best Author Parodies, From Quinn Tyler To Edward L.L. Moore

New York media has been the backdrop for what feels like millions of TV shows about women chasing their dreams. But so few get it right. (I’ll never forget the series in which a magazine editor berates a writer, “You didn’t even leave space in this story for ads!” Which, for the uninitiated, is something an editor would never be concerned with.) But despite Younger’s outlandish premise — a rom-com about a 40-year-old woman passing for 26 — it’s become perhaps the most authentic show ever about the world of book publishing. Through seven seasons, it’s delivered plots that lived and died by the peculiar inner workings of publishing — and managed to make dishy twists out of inside-baseball stuff like bulk sales and imprint/parent company dynamics. Don’t tell anyone who worked on my own novel, but the jargon I tossed off in conversation? Hilary Duff taught me all of it.

The best part of Younger’s evolution into an industry love letter is its prescient author characters, who always feel ripped from the splashiest book world conversations. See: this season’s Greta Thunberg dupe, played to yellow-slickered perfection by Nadia Alexander. “She has our favorite name from Season 7,” writer and executive producer Dottie Zicklin tells Bustle. “Füpa Grünhoff. Her name wouldn’t clear [with the show’s lawyers] until the umlauts were added!”

Füpa is just the latest in the show’s list of standout faux scribes, whose spot-on plotlines were in part the work of the show’s anonymous publishing consultant, who helped guide the staff on the industry’s trends and conversations. We still can’t reveal his or her identity, but we did get to talk to the consultant — along with Younger creator Darren Star, Dottie Zicklin, and fellow executive producer and writer Eric Zicklin — to get the stories behind how the show’s most iconic fake authors came to life.

Season 1: Jane Krakowski as Annabelle Bancroft

Bancroft, played with nightmare-diva energy by the 30 Rock star, was based on Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell. Star famously made the series based on that book, so an homage to Bushnell — in the form of Bancroft’s iconic scenester who spends her book launch party smoking indoors and fixating on the size of the crowd — felt like a safe place to start testing author parodies. “I thought Jane was hilarious playing [a version] of my friend Candace,” Star says. “She really made me laugh.” Writer and executive producer Eric Zicklin adds: “We loved her double-bounce off the glass door most of all.” (Bancroft runs into the door while chasing her coke dealer. Twice.)

Season 2: Kobi Libii as Rob Olive

This caricature of John Green — complete with a soulful leather necklace — hit just as I realized I was reading books about dying teen lovers almost exclusively. Libii is perfectly troubled and self-serious as the bestseller workshopping a Fault in Our Stars-style YA romance with Hilary Duff’s Kelsey at lunch. (Ever the brilliant brainstormer, it’s Kelsey who comes up with the idea for a hospice prom.) “We learned the term ‘sick lit,’ and the genre seemed natural for Millennial Press’ readers,” Dottie Zicklin says. “Trying to say John Green” — aka the author of Fault — “without using the words ‘John’ or ‘Green’ led to a great name.” Long live Rob Olive.

Season 2: Justine Lupe as Jade Winslow

With Lupe’s flaky influencer character, Younger dipped into the hazards of traditional publishing chasing Instagram sensations — Winslow gets a huge memoir advance, then fails to deliver a single page of work. (Liza has to cobble together a draft from the girl’s Instagram captions.) “The younger Younger writers brought up Cat Marnell as inspiration,” Eric Zicklin says. Marnell, a former beauty editor and socialite, wrote the smash 2017 memoir How to Murder Your Lifeabout her drug addiction and magazine-world adventures. “That story led Kelsey and Liza into learning about the balance between hype and substance.”

Season 2: Richard Masur as Edward L.L. Moore

Between his aggressive rascalling around the office and his misogyny, the show’s George R.R. Martin homage became its best work in terms of authentic publishing tension holding up plotlines. Martin’s Crown of Kings fantasy series is key to Empirical staying afloat, so he gets away with — well, not murder, but making Liza wear a fur bikini in Times Square might actually be worse? It takes Empirical far too long to do the right thing and drop the author. (Right around the time Moore debuted on the show, publishing was scrambling to reckon with its own legacy of harassment.) And when they do, Moore strikes back, outing Liza as the 40-something she is. The writers didn’t know when they started writing the character’s arc that he would unpin the show’s central secret. “We had no idea how instrumental he would become in exposing Liza,” Star says. “But Richard Masur was so hilarious that I wanted to bring him back and back and back.”

Season 3: Jay Wilkison as Colin McNichol

Remember the guy who asked Kelsey at the end of their first date to take a look at his novel? Or did you try to forget you ever heard the chilling invitation, “Come on in, I’ll print you out a copy”? Ah, the perils of being a single girl presiding over New York’s hottest imprint. Kelsey actually dates Colin for a while anyway — his 600-page epic turns out to be good, by her measure — but it doesn’t stop the character from feeling It-Boy insufferable all the way through his arc. (Which includes Netflix jumping on the option for his book, naturally.) As for the trend that inspired Colin? The big-money debut epic that seemed to dominate publishing years ago — see books that scored massive paydays like The Art of Fielding or City on Fire — has subsided somewhat. But Younger’s publishing consultant says it’s never really gone. “I think there was a moment where books like that were happening more often, but it could still happen,” the consultant says. “Everyone knows attention spans are shrinking, but people still want to find that ‘It Book’ of the year.”

Season 4: Kristin Chenoweth as Marylynne Keller

Younger’s first episode in the post-Trump era featured Chenoweth as a Kellyanne Conway sendup who declares the world post-facts and claims that “Truth is a four-letter word.” (When Charles corrects her math, saying truth has five letters, she purrs: “Not the way I spell it.”) One trillion bonus points to costume design for the jacket that mirrors Conway’s inauguration outfit. “Not to say the show was ahead of the culture,” Dottie Zicklin jokes, “but when the national conversation became about Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer cajoling the truth, we felt like we were already on that topic. Liza was living it from episode one.”

Season 5: Gina Gershon as Chrissie Hart

If you had Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless on your rockstar memoir shelf, you were so ready for this plotline starring Gershon in heavy bangs and week-old eyeliner. She plays Chrissie Hart, a famous singer whose memoir Charles and Liza chase to Shelter Island. (Obviously, Chrissie Hart doesn’t email drafts, because the internet is suspect.) The head of a major publisher personally retrieving a manuscript, messenger-style? Zany but plausible, the show’s consultant confirms. “If anyone’s ever worked on celebrity books, they are their own beasts — totally fun and awful and amazing,” the consultant says. “You know what you’re in for, and yet we can’t help ourselves because they sell and they’re glamorous to work on.”

Season 6: Willa Fitzgerald as Audrey Colbert

Fitzgerald, um, kills it in this tribute to wink-wink-did-I-murder-someone-or-not books. Her character goes around shopping a memoir meant to refute her villain status on a Serial-like podcast; she’s chaperoned by Michael Urie’s Redmond. (The only lit agent in New York, according to Younger, but would I want Urie sharing screen time? I would not.) Fitzgerald’s dead-eyed smize is what gives this character her hall of fame status. As Dottie Zicklin says, “Willa was able to give that staredown that says ‘beware’ and ‘I might have sex with you right now.’” Eventually, though, a press outcry kills the project — totally realistic, according to the show’s consultant. “If you are dealing with someone who the public believes to be guilty, or unworthy of a book deal, that can bring a major backlash,” the consultant says. “See Jonathan Mattingly or Josh Hawley — and, years ago, O.J. Simpson.” Yeah, remember If I Did It? Unlike Beaufort Books, the shop behind that one, Empirical eventually declined to publish Colbert’s book.

Season 6-7: Laura Benanti as Quinn Tyler

Quinn is the one Younger author who’s transcended cameo status. Once a Sheryl Sandberg parody in a wiggle dress, she’s become a prolonged meditation on the subject of women doing it all. “To us, the key to Quinn was understanding that she’s just as smart and successful and impulsive, and just as tone-deaf, as any male billionaire,” Eric Zicklin says. This season, Quinn becomes much more than a villain with an endless font of ice-queen comebacks — proof that Younger is well versed in publishing’s golden rule: Never judge a book by its cover.

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The Special Counsel’s Job Is Done, but the Mueller Media Complex Roars On

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The Special Counsel’s Job Is Done, but the Mueller Media Complex Roars On

In mid-July, four months after Robert Mueller delivered his investigative findings to the attorney general, a podcast called “The Report” aired its very first episode. You might have thought that after two and half years of obsessive coverage another voice in the media din would have a hard time finding an audience.

You would be mistaken.

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The 39-minute podcast—a deep-dive on the minutiae of the special counsel’s much debated 448-page work on the Russia probe, complete with dramatic narration, ominous sound effects and carefully-enunciated foreign names—was an instant online hit. Goosed along by a Rachel Maddow mention and by diehard fans of its makers at Lawfare, a wonky online repository for national security and intelligence news, the podcast racked up 300,000 downloads. With another dozen or so episodes still in the pipeline, the producers of “The Report” see their work’s popularity as proof that despite the president’s proclamation Mueller cleared him of committing any crimes while in office, Americans are nowhere near ready to declare “case closed.”

“They’re not sick of talking about it, and I can show you the numbers to prove it to you,” Susan Hennessey, a Lawfare executive editor and the main narrator of “The Report,” said the day after the former special counsel delivered his terse and undramatic testimony to Congress.

“The Report” is but one example of a little remarked phenomenon of the Russia scandal: While the special counsel’s office has shut down and the boss himself has returned to life as a private citizen, the universe of pundits, podcasts, journalists and others focused on Mueller’s work has continued to expand.

On top of the major networks and dominant national newspapers, all of which have seen their audiences grow substantially since 2017, there are more than a dozen podcasts that have emerged to pore over the Mueller saga and Russian election meddling. Mueller’s report is still selling well too: a version published by theWashington Posthas been on theNew York Times’ best-seller list for 15 weeks even though it’s available for free online. And you can expect, in the coming weeks, more details about a miniseries adaptation of James Comey’s memoir,A Higher Loyalty, which told the story of the former FBI director whose firing by Trump led directly to Mueller’s commission. And Bob Woodward himself is eyeing a second book on the Trump era that looks “deeply into all of these issues direct and indirect,” he told POLITICO.

Call it the Mueller Media Complex, and it thrives despite the former special counsel’s admonition that all the answers are contained in the report.

All the ingredients exist for this hydra to keep on growing too: Trump’s constant tweets invoking the Russia investigation, a daily drumbeat of “will they or won’t they?” impeachment chatter in Congress, lawsuits and testimony that promise to keep dredging up details out of the special counsel’s report, a Roger Stone trial this fall in Washington D.C. and warnings from Mueller himself that some of the same forms of foreign sabotage are happening again in 2020.

Just hours after Mueller completed his doubleheader appearances before Congress last month, “The Asset,” another popular podcast that could only be made in the Trump era, taped a special edition of its show at a bar just blocks from the Capitol. About a hundred people downed free cocktails while watching the live panel discussion, which included former agents from the FBI and CIA trying to put the special counsel’s low-key testimony into larger context. The hosts were also eager to promote their show’s 12-part series, which was winding down after a three-month run of weekly episodes drawing connections between Trump’s business dealings, Russia and the Mueller investigation.

“I feel there’s a huge appetite for more information about this, for more stories to be told and hopefully at some point in time to reach a satisfying conclusion that is more definitive than where we are right now,” Paul Woodhull, producer of “The Asset,” which is affiliated with the left-leaning Center for American Progress’s lobbying arm, told me.

That House Democrats are eyeing impeachment “breathes a lot of life into this” because of the prospect more could still be learned if Congress is able to get its hands on an unredacted copy of the Mueller report, Woodhull explained. The podcast’s funders are weighing whether to green light a second season, Woodhull added. “I can say I’m aggressively lobbying for it.”

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As Bob Woodward’s career demonstrates, every major scandal since Watergate—even some outside of Washington politics—has seen large media ecosystems build up around it. Each is also frequently a reflection of the technology of their times: Think of the print investigative reporters who helped take down Richard Nixon, the cable TV legal analysts like Jeffrey Toobin and Greta Van Susteren who made names for themselves during O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, or how the brand new Drudge Report website scooped Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff to reveal Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

The Russia investigation may be remembered as the probe built perfectly for the podcasts. Sure, long-form audio shows have been around since the tail end of the George W. Bush presidency. But here during the rise of Trump more than a dozen programs have taken form with roots in discussing the shenanigans of 2016—and what’s happened since. All political perspectives are available, like the “Special Prosecutor with Larry Klayman” show where the founder of the conservative group Judicial Watch gets introduced to the sound of helicopters flying overhead and then frequently uses his airtime to impugn the Russia probe’s origins. Over on “Mueller, She Wrote,” which features three Southern California female comedians, one of the more popular segments is called “fantasy indictment draft.”

“Everyone owes Robert Mueller a dinner or something for all of this, at the very least,” said Chris Bannon, chief content officer at Stitcher, a free online radio service that hosts many of the aforementioned Mueller-themed podcasts, including “The Mueller Report: A Radio Dramatization” and “Stay Tuned with Preet,” a talk show hosted by the former U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York that covers a cross section of topics but often returns to the special counsel’s work. Bannon explained that the Russia probe has lent itself so well to the medium because of its complexity—and the interest of listeners who want to hear it all pieced together.

“It’s the reasonable voices talking in a room together,” he said.

Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo! News and host of two podcasts with ties to the 2016 election, said the range of new online audio shows related to Trump and Russia “are a natural marriage of a new medium with the hot story of the day.”

“It’s not a surprise that there’d be so many podcasts that’d revolve around the events of Trump’s presidency. It’s the dominant news story of the era and podcasts are the increasingly dominant way in which we get our news,” he said.

The Russia probe has meant new career options for scores of former federal prosecutors and others with backgrounds in national security and law enforcement. Several signed lucrative contracts with cable networks eager to have their own on-call analysts. Many had spoken up first in print news accounts and via their own extensive Twitter threads, where they pitched their services to a confused public eager to make sense of the most arcane legal maneuvers.

“I think it’s safe to say this is a moment in which there has been more interest in legal analysis than there has ever been in my lifetime,” said Renato Mariotti, a former assistant U.S. attorney from Chicago who said he had fewer than 100 Twitter followers when the Mueller probe launched but has parlayed his expertise into a CNN analyst contract, a podcast and a recurring column in POLITICO Magazine. His Twitter followers now exceed 200,000.

“For someone like me it was an opportunity. It allowed me to present facts and analysis to a lot of people and it spread very quickly,” he said.

The same went for Lawfare, a side project of the non-profit Brookings Institution that for years had been a backwater venue for detailed policy conversations about everything from government surveillance to terrorism and cybersecurity. Then came Russian election meddling, and its top editor Benjamin Wittes often responded to big Mueller media revelations by posting on Twitter short videos of a miniature cannon explosion. The website published hundreds of Mueller items, including a real-time dissection of the Trump campaign’s 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer who approached Donald Trump Jr. offering dirt about Clinton. Thanks to the Russia investigation, the web site has seen its traffic surge at exponential rates and boasts of about 15 million page views combined for 2017 and 2018.

“We have all been very surprised at the degree to which this giant new audience has shown up at our door wanting to participate in that conversation,” Wittes said. “Yeah, it crept up on us except there was nothing subtle about it…It hit us over the head like a sledge-hammer.”

Mueller media coverage hit its peak in 2019 as the probe came to an end. But even the end didn’t feel particularly final, what with the debate over Attorney General William Barr’s summary, Mueller’s subsequent press conference about Barr’s summary, and then seven hours of House hearings. The long goodbye drove coverage through the roof.

Nearly 5.6 percent of MSNBC’s total airtime this year through early August was devoted to the special counsel, according to data compiled by the TV News Archive. The online research outfit, which measures closed-caption mentions in 15-second intervals for the three major cable networks, also found that 4.5 percent of CNN’s coverage and 2.9 percent of the FOX airtime covered Mueller so far this year. For all of the networks, that’s more than a two-fold increase compared with the attention they each gave to the topic during the second half of 2017 when the Russia investigation first got rolling.

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Mueller beat reporters are donewith their courthouse stakeouts. Patriot Plaza, the southwest D.C. office complex where the special counsel and his team of lawyers and FBI agents were housed, has returned to bureaucratic anonymity.

But that doesn’t mean the media ecosystem is dying. In fact, it’s just changing shape, or at least location.

Lawmakers are actually getting help from some of the people who played featured roles in the media’s coverage. One of the House Judiciary panel’s senior attorneys is Norm Eisen, the former top Obama White House ethics official who early in the Trump era was a frequent CNN pundit and while at his previous perch at the Brookings Institution co-authored an extensive analysis about why the president obstructed justice. It’s a similar story over on the House Intelligence Committee, which started the year by hiring Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor and MSNBC analyst to lead the panel’s investigations, and Diana Pilipenko, a money laundering and sanctions expert who had been part of the Center for American Progress’s Moscow Project that’s dedicated to digging on Trump’s financial ties to Russia.

More opportunities may hinge on impeachment and the Democratic congressional investigations, and whether anyone can turn up stones that the special counsel didn’t already publicize. Some of the people who have established brands around Mueller say they have no trouble shifting to other topics of expertise.

“As long as people keep listening we’ll keep putting the content out,” said A.G., the host of “Mueller, She Wrote,” which she launched in late 2017 and now has 1 million monthly downloads, advertisers and a live road show selling $30-tickets to deep-blue audiences in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston.

The San Diego comedian, who doesn’t use her real name because she also has a day job in the federal executive branch, recently launched a second podcast called “The Daily Beans” talking through the news headlines. “It wasn’t supposed to be a forever situation,” she said of the “Mueller, She Wrote” persona. “It’s kind of up in the air, just like our democracy is.”

Most of the big shows are also up in the air. But they’re not coming in for a landing anytime soon.

“We’re talking about that right now,” Isikoff said of ConspiracyLand, the six-episode podcast he hosted that examined the unsolved 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich in Washington D.C. The show has garnered nearly 1 million listeners. “It’s really hit a nerve out there,” he said.

Chuck Rosenberg, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency and ex-FBI staffer under both Mueller and Comey, launched a podcast in April with 10 episodes logged as of the end of July. It features in-depth biographical interviews with several of the top national security and law enforcement officials at the center of the Russia probe, including Comey, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe, former FBI general counsel James Baker and former Obama White House homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco. Rosenberg is now working on a second season for the podcast, scheduled to begin again in early to mid-September, and he’s also continuing to do on-air work as a legal analyst with MSNBC.

And some members of this robust ecosystem are in it, whether they like it or not.

Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor andNational Reviewcolumnist who kicked off his own podcast around June 2018, said he expected to keep talking about issues including Mueller, impeachment, Democratic lawsuits to enforce the emoluments clause of the Constitution and trying to gain access to Trump’s tax returns.

“I don’t say that with any great joy. I think it’d be better if we actually moved onto what is going to happen in the country after 2020,” said McCarthy, a FOX commentator dating to the George W. Bush administration. “If that meant my little piece of the industrial complex had to fade away, I would be OK with that.”

Broadway and Hollywood have had their roles to play as well.

A celebrity cast reading in New York last month featuring Kevin Kline playing Mueller and John Lithgow in the role of Trump has gotten more than 3 million online views, and a tool kit explaining how to mount a live production including a free version of the script written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan has been downloaded more than 13,000 times. Hundreds of local groups, many of them chapters of the pro-impeachment group Indivisible, are already planning their own readings.

Details on any Hollywood productions dealing with Mueller or the 2016 campaign remain under wraps, though several sources with ties back to the entertainment world say they’ve been privy to discussions on film projects about the Russia investigation. Given the lack of an actual ending to the overall Trump story and studio squeamishness about getting into the president’s crosshairs, it could be years before anything memorable gets made about the Mueller probe. Just look at the late-blooming interest in the Clinton impeachment: the Slate podcast “Slow Burn” didn’t come out until last year, and a new Monica Lewinsky-produced season of American Crime Story is set to air next fall on the FX network.

“I think that there’s endless potential and that I think what has unfolded as a matter of fact is infinitely more fascinating than what fiction writers could have thought of two years ago,” said Eric Schultz, the former Obama White House deputy press secretary who consulted on the recent Netflix reboot of the presidential television drama “Designated Survivor.” For starters, he called the FBI’s pre-dawn raid in the summer of 2017 on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s Alexandria, Virginia, condominium “a scene that writes itself.”

“It felt incredibly cinematic throughout the course of the investigation, the revelatory nature of how it unfolded,” Schultz added. “In terms of the chronology of the underlying facts and how we learned them I think would make a lot of Hollywood writers jealous. It’s powerful raw material and can certainly translate on screen.”

For now, it’s up in the air who, if anyone will emerge as the next Woodward or Isikoff—a name brand forever linked back to the 2016 campaign, Trump and the Russia investigation. Mueller himself won’t ever be a talking head. He’s made that abundantly clear. But could one of his deputies emerge in that role?

So far, no one who worked on the special counsel probe is talking publicly about their work, though a memoir from former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann is reportedly coming. Whether Weissmann would ever migrate from the cloistered realm of the prosecutor into the noisy media world remains unknown. Back in April, while sitting in the D.C. federal courthouse cafeteria, POLITICO asked him whether he’d consider breaking the special counsel office’s well-documented silence to opine publicly the next time there’s a major presidential scandal.

He replied, “God help us.”

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