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The top 10 neighbors for Media Guardian span journalists, authors, blogs, magazines, and news publishers — with no single entity pulling significantly ahead of the rest. Similarity scores run from 0.94 (The School of Life) down to 0.92 (Brian Stelter), a range of just 0.01, which is the defining structural fact here: the cluster is tight and undifferentiated.

Tallying the top 10 by subcategory: Journalists account for four neighbors — Ben Smith (0.93), Ryan Lizza (0.92), Brian Stelter (0.92), and Rukmini Callimachi (0.92). News Publishers account for three — NYTimes Communications (0.93), Page Six (0.93), and London Review of Books (0.92, subcategory: Magazines). Authors appear twice — Frank Bruni (0.93) and Mark Bittman (0.93). One Blog rounds out the set: The School of Life (0.94). Media Guardian's own subcategory, News Publishers, is represented by two neighbors in the top 10 — NYTimes Communications and Page Six — meaning the audience shape is only partially self-similar; journalists and authors collectively outnumber fellow news publishers. The presence of The Atlantic: Ideas (0.93, Magazines) alongside food-and-culture authors like Mark Bittman suggests the audience composition extends well beyond media-industry readers.

The flat shape across this cluster points to an audience that distributes its attention broadly across quality editorial — news, commentary, long-form, and literary — rather than concentrating around any single outlet or voice.

Nearest neighbors by audience shape

Cosine similarity over Persona Live audience composition.
"Entities whose overall audience profile most closely matches this one — people who follow one tend to follow the other."

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Attention graph /similar sample results  (free):
{ "handle": "mediaguardian", "title": "Media Guardian", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "resolved": "mediaguardian", "k": 10, "shape": "flat", "filter": null, "results": [ { "handle": "alaindebotton", "title": "The School of Life", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "Blogs", "similarity": 0.9354, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J04" ] }, { "handle": "frankbruni", "title": "Frank Bruni", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Authors", "similarity": 0.9341, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "nytimespr", "title": "NYTimes Communications", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.9316, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "bittman", "title": "Mark Bittman", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Authors", "similarity": 0.9297, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "theatlideas", "title": "The Atlantic: Ideas", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "Magazines", "similarity": 0.9266, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J04" ] }, { "handle": "benyt", "title": "Ben Smith", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.926, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J04" ] }, { "handle": "pagesix", "title": "Page Six", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.9252, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "lrb", "title": "London Review of Books", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "Magazines", "similarity": 0.9239, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "ryanlizza", "title": "Ryan Lizza", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9239, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J04" ] }, { "handle": "brianstelter", "title": "Brian Stelter", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9226, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "I01", "J02" ] } ] }
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