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The Associated Press draws a flat similarity landscape — no single neighbor dominates, and the top 10 span five distinct subcategories without any one pulling ahead.
Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. The top neighbor, Upworthy (0.92), is a Website, not a fellow News Publisher — a cross-kind lead that sets the tone for the rest of the set. ProPublica (0.92) follows as a Non-Profit, and Padma Lakshmi (0.91), a TV Personality, sits at third — the most structurally surprising entry in the top 10. NPR Politics (0.91) and Slate (0.91) round out the top five, representing News Publishers and Websites respectively.
Tallying the full top 10: three News Publishers (NPR Politics, Politico, Mother Jones), two Websites (Upworthy, Slate), one Non-Profit (ProPublica), one Podcast/Radio (The Takeaway), one Magazine (Salon), one TV Personality (Padma Lakshmi), and one Journalist (Ezra Klein). The AP shares its own subcategory with three of the ten neighbors — a modest same-kind presence — but the majority of the cluster is cross-kind, spanning civic media, commentary, and individual personalities rather than wire-service peers.
The flat shape and subcategory spread suggest an audience that is not defined by attachment to any single media format, but by a consistent orientation toward news-adjacent, civic, and analytical content across channels.
