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Six of Soledad O'Brien's ten nearest neighbors share her subcategory — Journalists — and the remaining four span Academics, Politicians, Government Officials, and Activists, all within a tight 0.02-point band from 0.99 to 0.97.
The shape is flat: no single neighbor pulls away from the pack. Symone D. Sanders leads at 0.99, followed closely by Van Jones at 0.98 and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. at 0.98 — the one Academic in the top 10. Zerlina Maxwell (0.98, Politicians) and April Ryan (0.98, Journalists) round out the top five. Further down, Joy Reid (0.98), Abby D. Phillip (0.97), and Charles M. Blow (0.97) extend the journalist cluster, while Karine Jean-Pierre (0.97, Government Officials) and Michael Skolnik (0.97, Activists) represent the cross-kind minority. The non-journalist neighbors are not outliers — their scores sit within the same compressed range — which means the audience overlap extends uniformly across media figures, political commentators, and civic voices rather than concentrating on any one type.
The overall picture is an audience defined by a specific media-and-civic ecosystem, where journalists form the core but the boundaries blur evenly into adjacent public-affairs subcategories.
