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Sharyl Attkisson

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Six of the top 10 neighbors are fellow Journalists — Mollie Hemingway at 0.97, Catherine Herridge at 0.94, Brit Hume at 0.93, Kimberley Strassel at 0.93, and John Stossel at 0.92 — but the remaining four slots belong to a notably different mix, which is where the broad shape becomes interesting.

Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 1.0 indicates near-identical audience shape. The top 10 spread across five subcategories: six Journalists, one Government Official (Richard Grenell, 0.93), two Politicians (Nikki Haley, 0.92; Elise Stefanik, 0.90), and one TV Personality (Charles V Payne, 0.91). No news publishers, websites, or media brands appear in the top 10, despite their presence deeper in the neighbor set. The scores compress into a tight band — from 0.97 down to 0.90 — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest, which is the structural signature of a broad shape: many entities drawing comparably similar audiences rather than one dominant match.

The cross-kind presence of politicians and a government official alongside journalists suggests this audience does not sort strictly by professional category; it tracks a coherent ideological and media ecosystem that spans roles.

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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