Seven of Neera Tanden's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are Journalists — a mix of print reporters, TV correspondents, and political analysts whose audiences overlap substantially with hers. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audience compositions resemble each other; scores across the top 10 run from 0.99 to 0.98, a narrow band consistent with the flat shape classification.
The journalist cluster is dense at the top: Manu Raju (0.99), David Fahrenthold (0.99), Maggie Haberman (0.98), and Ashley Parker (0.98) occupy four of the five closest positions. Chris Cillizza (0.98), Jeffrey Toobin (0.98), and Greg Sargent (0.98) round out the journalist contingent. The three non-journalist neighbors — David Axelrod (0.98) as the lone fellow Politician, Ben Rhodes (0.98) as a Government Official, and Preet Bharara (0.98) as a Professional — sit within the same tight score range rather than standing apart from it.
The overall picture is an audience shaped almost entirely by political journalism and adjacent government-adjacent figures, with Tanden's own subcategory represented by only one neighbor in the top 10.