CJR's top 10 neighbors span websites, journalists, news publishers, magazines, and a podcast — no single subcategory dominates, and the scores compress into a narrow band from 0.99 down to 0.98.
The shape is flat: Nieman Lab leads at 0.99, followed closely by Longreads at 0.99, Jessica Valenti (Authors, 0.99), Vox (News Publishers, 0.99), and On the Media (Podcasts and Radio, 0.99). No neighbor pulls meaningfully ahead of the others. Tallying the top 10 by subcategory: Journalists account for three entries — Lauren Duca (0.99), Michael Barbaro (0.98), and Astead Herndon (0.98) — alongside one Website, one Author, one News Publisher, one Podcast, one Magazine (The New Republic, 0.99), and one Activist (Gloria Steinem, 0.98). CJR is itself a Magazine, and The New Republic is the only other Magazine in the top 10, meaning the cluster is predominantly cross-kind: journalists as individuals, media-adjacent websites, and news publishers rather than fellow magazines.
The most structurally notable feature is how heavily individual journalists — as a subcategory — populate the near neighborhood alongside institutional media brands, suggesting CJR's audience is shaped less by magazine-reading habits than by an orientation toward media criticism and journalism-industry discourse across formats.