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Raw Story's top 10 neighbors form a tightly mixed cluster — no single entity dominates, and the composition spans activism organizations, politicians, journalists, news publishers, and fellow websites within a narrow similarity band running from 0.93 down to 0.90.
The shape is flat. MoveOn sits at the top (0.93), but it is an activism organization, not a news website — and it is the only activism entity in the top 10. Below it, the mix diversifies quickly: Marianne Williamson (0.91, Authors), HuffPost Politics (0.90, News Publishers), NBC News World (0.90, News Publishers), and Nancy Pelosi (0.90, Politicians). Jacob Dean (0.90, Journalists) and AlterNet (0.90, Websites) round out the top seven. AlterNet is the only other Website subcategory entry in the top 10 — Raw Story's own kind appears just once among its nearest neighbors. The remaining positions go to Shira Lazar (0.90, TV Personalities), BBC News (UK) (0.89, News Publishers), and DCCC (0.89, Political Groups).
News Publishers are the most represented subcategory (three of ten), but the cluster is genuinely mixed: politicians, journalists, an activism group, a political organization, an author, and a TV personality all appear alongside them. The cross-kind breadth — rather than any single dominant neighbor — is the defining structural feature of this audience.
Raw Story's audience shape is defined by a consistent political-media orientation that pulls in entities across multiple subcategories rather than concentrating around any one type.
