Jamelle Bouie's top 10 neighbors form a dense, mixed cluster of journalists, news publishers, magazines, and podcasts — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.

Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. The shape is flat: scores run from 0.99 at the top down to 0.98 at position 10, a band of less than two percentage points across the entire set. Astead Herndon leads at 0.99, followed by Vox at 0.99, CityLab at 0.99, and Adam Serwer at 0.99 — but none of these is a standout; they are part of a tight pack. Tallying the subcategories across all 10 neighbors: four are Journalists (Astead Herndon, Adam Serwer, Ezra Klein, Ana Marie Cox), three are Magazines (CityLab, The Atlantic, The New Republic), one is a News Publisher (Vox), one is Podcasts and Radio (On the Media), and one is Non-Profit (ProPublica). The dominant subcategories are fellow journalists and print/digital magazines — Bouie's own kind and its closest institutional equivalents — with civic media and public-radio audiences rounding out the mix.

The flat shape, with its compressed score range and subcategory spread across journalism, magazines, and non-profit media, points to an audience defined by a coherent media diet rather than loyalty to any single outlet or voice.