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The ten nearest neighbors in Audie Cornish's similarity graph are split between NPR-ecosystem radio programs and fellow journalists — with one outlier that cuts across both clusters. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 1.0 indicates near-identical audience shape.
Six of the ten neighbors are Podcasts and Radio properties: All Things Considered (0.98), Morning Edition (0.9765), Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (0.9694), Marketplace (0.9691), Fresh Air (0.9689), and NPR (0.9683). Three neighbors are fellow Journalists: Ari Shapiro at 0.9869 — the highest score in the set — Tamara Keith at 0.9789, and Nina Totenberg at 0.9673. The tenth neighbor is Merriam-Webster, a Websites property, at 0.9770 — sitting above five of the six radio programs and all but one journalist, which makes it the structural outlier of the group.
The flat shape reflects how tightly compressed these scores are: the gap between the top neighbor (0.9869) and the tenth (0.9673) is under two percentage points, meaning no single entity dominates and no cluster falls away. The audience Cornish draws is defined almost entirely by public radio and political journalism — and it holds that shape with unusual consistency across a wide range of content types.
