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The top 10 neighbors for Mike Allen compress into a narrow band — scores running from 0.99 down to 0.98 — with no single dominant pull and no outlier. The shape is flat: a dense cluster of peers, not a hierarchy.
All ten neighbors are fellow journalists or closely adjacent political-media entities. Eight of the ten carry the Journalists subcategory: Ryan Lizza (0.99), Alex Burns (0.99), Jonathan Martin (0.99), Jeffrey Goldberg (0.99), Glenn Thrush (0.98), Josh Dawsey (0.98), Mark Knoller (0.98), and Brian Stelter (0.98). The remaining two are institutional outlets: POLITICO Magazine (0.98), a Magazine, and Bloomberg Politics (0.98), a News Publisher. No non-media entities appear in the top 10, and the subcategory spread is almost entirely same-kind — a journalist whose nearest audiences are, overwhelmingly, other journalists' audiences.
The tight scoring range reinforces the composition finding: this is not an audience that bleeds into adjacent territory. It sits squarely inside the Washington political press corps, with institutional outlets serving as the only variation from individual bylines.
