Rising (news show)

Rising
Rising
	Logo used when Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti hosted the show
Genre	Political news and commentary
Presented by	Current; Kim Iversen (July 2021–present); Ryan Grim (May 2021–present); Alyssa Farah (August 2021–present); Past; Emily Jashinsky (May–July 2021); Saagar Enjeti (2019–May 2021); Krystal Ball (2018–May 2021); Buck Sexton (2018–2019);
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	The Hill
Release
Original release	June 13, 2018 –; present
External links
	Website

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's website and YouTube. Its format includes one populist left anchor and one populist right anchor, who analyze current events from both sides of the political spectrum.

Gradually gaining popularity on YouTube throughout 2019 and 2020, the show's longest-serving hosts were Krystal Ball (who gave left-wing viewpoints) and Saagar Enjeti (who gave right-wing viewpoints), until their departure in May 2021. Since then, the interim hosts are commentators Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen and Alyssa Farah.

Format[]

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, and occasional live-analysis segments.

The "What's On Your Radar" segments serve as each episode's feature. The hosts 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.

About[]

Logo used when Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball hosted the show

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 Enjeti replaced Sexton. Ball was slated as the "progressive co-host on a morning show with a conservative co-host".^[1] Rising was launched in June 2018 with Buck Sexton serving as the conservative counterpart to Ball.

As of October 2020, the Hill's channel averaged 1.48 million views per day on YouTube,^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

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.^[6]^[7] They were temporarily replaced with Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky as interim hosts until the new permanent hosts, Colin Rogero and Emily Miller, were in place.

Miller was replaced after one day with Jashinsky, then Ryan Grim and Jashinsky became the permanent hosts, replacing Rogero. In July, Kim Iversen took over from Jashinsky,^[8] who said on Twitter that she had never intended to do Rising full time.^[9]

References[]

^ "Krystal Ball, Jamal Simmons Join The Hill" (Press release). PR Newswire. January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
^ "The Hill's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats". October 1, 2020. Archived from the original on October 1, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
^ Halper, Evan (December 12, 2019). "No #Bernieblackout here: Sanders rides a surge of alternative media". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
^ Hartmann, Thom (February 3, 2020). "Will 2020 Election Be A Story of Populism?". Free Speech TV. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
^ Ball, Krystal; Enjeti, Saagar (January 7, 2020). The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising. Strong Arm Press. ISBN 9781947492455. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
^ Cockburn (June 1, 2021). "The fall of Rising". The Spectator. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
^ Berkowitz, Joe (June 12, 2021). "Why 'Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar' became the number-one political podcast in a week". Fast Company. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfFK9qguyg
^ Jashinsky, Emily [@emilyjashinsky] (August 2, 2021). "Love the team at Rising but I've decided to stop subbing in. I agreed to host temporarily after choosing in May not to do the show full time. We had fun. Now I have to get back to writing. I love the show @krystalball and @esaagar built and am stoked @ryangrim is back this week" (Tweet). Retrieved August 26, 2021 – via Twitter.

External links[]

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[1] "Krystal Ball, Jamal Simmons Join The Hill" (Press release). PR Newswire. January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2020.

[2] "The Hill's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats". October 1, 2020. Archived from the original on October 1, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.

[3] Halper, Evan (December 12, 2019). "No #Bernieblackout here: Sanders rides a surge of alternative media". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 12, 2020.

[4] Hartmann, Thom (February 3, 2020). "Will 2020 Election Be A Story of Populism?". Free Speech TV. Retrieved February 11, 2020.

[5] Ball, Krystal; Enjeti, Saagar (January 7, 2020). The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising. Strong Arm Press. ISBN 9781947492455. Retrieved January 30, 2020.

[6] Cockburn (June 1, 2021). "The fall of Rising". The Spectator. Retrieved June 7, 2021.

[7] Berkowitz, Joe (June 12, 2021). "Why 'Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar' became the number-one political podcast in a week". Fast Company. Retrieved June 12, 2021.

[8] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfFK9qguyg

[9] Jashinsky, Emily [@emilyjashinsky] (August 2, 2021). "Love the team at Rising but I've decided to stop subbing in. I agreed to host temporarily after choosing in May not to do the show full time. We had fun. Now I have to get back to writing. I love the show @krystalball and @esaagar built and am stoked @ryangrim is back this week" (Tweet). Retrieved August 26, 2021 – via Twitter.

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