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The top 10 neighbors for Jared Yates Sexton span journalists, comedians, politicians, activists, and media channels — with no single entity pulling clearly ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.98 (Judd Legum) down to 0.97 (Kevin M. Kruse) across all ten positions, a band of less than 0.01. The composition of that band is the finding. Tallying subcategories across the top 10: journalists lead with three entries (Judd Legum at 0.98, Sarah Kendzior at 0.979 — who is also the only fellow Author in the top 10 — and NPR Books at 0.978 as a News Publisher). Comedians account for two slots (Stephen Colbert at 0.979, Jon Favreau at 0.976 as a Professional). Politicians, activists, podcasts, and an academic round out the rest. This is a cross-kind cluster: Sexton is an Author, yet only one other Author appears in the top 10, alongside a dense mix of political journalists, left-leaning media channels like Pod Save America (0.976), and comedians with political profiles. The presence of Charlotte Clymer (0.978, Activist) and Kevin M. Kruse (0.974, Academic) alongside broadcast-adjacent entities like NPR Books reinforces that the audience shape here is defined less by literary readership than by a politically engaged, media-literate cluster that spans formats.
The flat, tightly compressed scores suggest an audience with broad and consistent overlap across this entire ecosystem rather than a concentrated attachment to any single neighbor.
