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All ten of Jonathan Martin's nearest neighbors are fellow journalists — Jake Sherman at 0.99, Glenn Thrush at 0.99, Alex Burns, Ryan Lizza, Josh Dawsey, Jeffrey Goldberg, Josh Marshall, Mike Allen, Andrew Kaczynski, and Julia Ioffe — and the scores compress into a band of just 0.99 to 0.99, with no single neighbor pulling meaningfully ahead.
The shape is flat: the top score (0.9922, Sherman) and the tenth score (0.9860, Ioffe) differ by less than 0.007. That compression means no one journalist is a structural anchor — the audience is drawn equally across a dense cluster of political and national-affairs reporters. The mix skews toward Washington-focused beat reporters and political correspondents, with a secondary presence of longer-form and magazine-style journalists (Goldberg, Ioffe, Lizza). No non-journalist subcategory appears anywhere in the top 10; the nearest audiences are entirely within the same professional category as Martin himself.
This uniformity signals an audience defined tightly by the political journalism beat rather than by any individual peer or outlet.
