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All ten of Andrew Kaczynski's nearest neighbors are fellow journalists — and the scores separating them span barely two hundredths of a point, from Jane Mayer at 0.99 to Glenn Thrush at 0.99, with Ronan Farrow, Ryan Lizza, Olivia Nuzzi, Dave Weigel, Alex Burns, Ezra Klein, Julia Ioffe, and Matthew Yglesias filling the positions between them.
The shape is flat: similarity scores measure how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition, and here the top 10 form a nearly undifferentiated band of political and investigative journalists. No single neighbor pulls away from the pack — Thrush leads at 0.9899 and Mayer closes at 0.9877, a gap too narrow to treat as meaningful. The cluster is also entirely same-kind: every neighbor shares the Journalists subcategory, with no news publishers, politicians, or other subcategories breaking into the top 10. That uniformity signals an audience whose shape is tightly defined by the political journalism beat — readers who follow this specific professional cohort as a group rather than gravitating toward any one name within it.
The flat, same-kind structure suggests this audience moves across the political journalism landscape as a bloc, with no single adjacent figure commanding disproportionate overlap.
