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Nine of Jake Sherman's top 10 nearest neighbors are fellow journalists — a near-total same-kind cluster with scores compressed into a tight band from 0.98 to 0.99.
The shape is flat: Jonathan Martin leads at 0.99, followed by Josh Dawsey at 0.99, Ryan Lizza and Glenn Thrush both at 0.99, and Chris Cillizza at 0.98. The scores are so tightly grouped that no single neighbor stands apart as a dominant pull — the entire set reads as one coherent cluster of political journalists. The one non-journalist in the top 10 is Axios, a News Publisher at 0.98, which fits the same political-media orbit without breaking the pattern. No politicians, government officials, or non-media entities appear in the top 10; the neighbor set is almost entirely journalists and one news outlet.
What this compression reveals is an audience with a very specific and consistent composition — one that tracks political journalism as a category rather than any individual reporter within it.
