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The top 10 neighbors of CNN NationalSecurity span five distinct subcategories — a breadth that signals a mass-market audience shape rather than a tight niche. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 0.95 indicates near-identical audience profiles.
Defense One leads at 0.95, the strongest pull in the set, followed closely by Capital Journal (0.92) and National Journal (0.92) — all three are News Publishers, the same subcategory as CNN NationalSecurity itself. That same-kind cluster continues with Meet the Press: First Read (0.90) and The Christian Science Monitor (0.90). So five of the top 10 neighbors share the center entity's own subcategory, confirming a strong same-kind core.
The remaining five positions break that pattern in revealing ways. Brookings Institute (0.92) and Pew Research Center (0.89) are Research Organizations — think-tank and survey audiences whose shape closely mirrors this one. Morning Consult (0.91) is a Blog. CIA (0.90) is a Government entity — the only one in the top 10 — and How I Built This (0.89) is a Podcast and Radio property, the sole audio outlet in the set. That last neighbor is the sharpest cross-kind signal: a business-narrative podcast whose audience profile aligns with a national security news feed.
Taken together, the top 10 describe an audience that is primarily shaped by policy-oriented news and research consumption, with enough breadth across formats and institutions to confirm a wide, professionally engaged readership rather than a narrow beat-specific one.
