Rising (news show)
The Hill's Rising (or simply Rising is an American daily news and opinion web series produced by Washington, D.C. political newspaper "The Hill". The series is available on "The Hill" website and YouTube. Gradually gaining popularity on YouTube throughout 2019 and 2020, the show's longest-serving hosts were Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, until their departure in May 2021. Since then, the permanent hosts are journalist Ryan Grim alongside commentators Kim Iversen and Robby Soave. Temporary hosts in the third position have included Emily Jashinsky, Colin Rogero, Jamal Simmons, Emily Miller, Alyssa Farah, Briahna Joy  Gray, and Rachel Bovard. About. "Rising" features commentary and analysis of political news and current events, in-studio interviews with politicians, campaign staff and surrogates, political advisors and strategists, and members of the news media. When Ball & Enjeti hosted, the show presented a synthesis of populist left and populist right viewpoints. Format. Rising typically produces five episode a week, Monday-Friday. There are usually about eight pre-taped segments per episode. Each host presents a "radar" segment which analyze current events and present commentary in a monologue format, usually organized into three or four bullet-points. This is followed by  an open discussion. 2020. In 2020, they did a few live-stream analysis programs for important political events like the 2020 Democratic primary and the 2020 general elections. History. In 2018, "The Hill" announced Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton as presenters of a new slate of original programming to be produced by John Solomon. "Rising" launched in June 2018 as Rising with Krystal & Buck; with Buck Sexton as co-host until June 2019, when Saagar Enjeti replaced Sexton. Ball was slated as the "progressive co-host on a morning show with a conservative co-host". , the Hill's channel averaged  1.48 million views per day on YouTube, and has around 1.2 million subscribers. Enjeti and Ball also co-authored a book, "The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left Are Rising". 2021 host changes. In May 2021, Ball and Enjeti announced they were departing in order to release their own independent project, "Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar". They were temporarily replaced with Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky. In July, Kim Iversen took over from Jashinsky, who said on Twitter that she had never intended to do "Rising" full time. The permanent hosts of the show  are now Ryan Grim, who tends to hold progressive ideologies, and Robby Soave, who holds libertarian ideologies. Kim Iversen and Emily Jashinsky are among the most commonly featured third panelists, who generally come from a select group of previously featured journalists.