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Nine of Julia Ioffe's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are fellow journalists — a near-total same-kind cluster that leaves almost no room for cross-category variation. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; the scores across the top 10 span only 0.99 to 0.99, a band so compressed it confirms the flat shape classification.
Glenn Thrush leads at 0.99, followed immediately by Maggie Haberman (0.99), Ryan Lizza (0.99), Olivia Nuzzi (0.99), and Josh Marshall (0.99) — all journalists, all within a fraction of a point of one another. David Fahrenthold (0.99) and Jeffrey Goldberg (0.99) extend the streak. The sole non-journalist in the top 10 is Andy Borowitz, a comedian, at 0.99 — essentially indistinguishable in score from the journalists surrounding him. Jane Mayer (0.99) and Josh Dawsey (0.99) round out the set.
The absence of any news publisher, political account, or other category in the top 10 — beyond that single comedian — underscores how tightly this audience is defined by the journalist subcategory. The flat shape means no single neighbor dominates; the finding is the uniformity itself.
This audience shape belongs to a dense, same-kind cluster of political and investigative journalists, with no meaningful structural separation between any of them.
