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Nine of Jeffrey Goldberg's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are fellow journalists — a near-total same-kind cluster with scores compressed into a tight band from 0.99 down to 0.99, reflecting the flat shape of this data. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; the top 10 span just 0.006 points, from Glenn Thrush at 0.99 to Olivia Nuzzi at 0.99.
The cluster is dominated by political journalists: Glenn Thrush (0.99), Ryan Lizza (0.99), Josh Dawsey (0.99), Julia Ioffe (0.99), and Maggie Haberman (0.99) occupy the top five positions. The one departure from the journalist subcategory is Andy Borowitz (0.99), a comedian, who sits at position eight — the sole non-journalist in the top 10. No news publishers, blogs, academics, or government officials appear in the top 10; the neighbor set is almost entirely individual journalists working in political and national-affairs coverage.
The absence of any structural variation — no cross-kind outlier pulling in a different direction, no second cluster — means this audience is shaped almost entirely by one kind of entity. The top 10 describe an audience that tracks political journalism as a category, not any single outlet or beat within it.
