The top 10 neighbors for Richard Engel form a tightly compressed cluster — scores run from 0.99 down to 0.98 with no single dominant pull — and the mix spans journalists, politicians, and authors rather than concentrating in any one subcategory.

Seven of the ten neighbors are fellow journalists: Peter Alexander (0.98), John Harwood (0.98), Katy Tur (0.98), Kasie Hunt (0.98), Daniel Dale (0.98), Robert Costa (0.98), and David Frum (0.98). That makes the core of the cluster same-kind — Engel's audience looks most like the audiences of other political and national-affairs journalists. The two non-journalist outliers at the top are Michael Beschloss (0.99), an author, and Evan McMullin (0.98) and Tim Miller (0.98), both politicians — suggesting the audience also overlaps with readers drawn to political commentary and analysis from outside the press corps. The flat shape means no single neighbor stands apart; the band is narrow and the composition is consistent throughout.

The overall picture is a politically engaged, news-focused audience that distributes its attention evenly across journalists, political commentators, and policy-adjacent authors — with no sharp preference for any one figure.