Rising | |
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Genre | Political news and commentary |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | The Hill, Nexstar Media Group |
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Original release | June 13, 2018 present | –
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. The New York times described its as a "popular establishment-bashing web series".
Gradually gaining popularity on YouTube throughout 2019 and 2020,[citation needed] the show's longest-serving hosts were Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, until their departure in May 2021. The permanent hosts are now journalist Robby Soave, commentator Kim Iversen, journalist Ryan Grim, journalist Emily Jashinsky and commentator Briahna Joy Gray.
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 and Enjeti hosted, the show presented a synthesis of populist left and populist right viewpoints.[1]
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.
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. In the press release, Ball was slated as the "progressive co-host on a morning show with a conservative co-host".[2][non-primary source needed]
In late 2019, it had an average of 600,000 viewers daily.[3] As of October 2020, the Hill's channel averaged 1.48 million views per day on YouTube,[4][5] and had 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.[6][7]
The show focused on attacking "establishment Democrats" such as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg.[8]>
In 2020, the show did a few live-stream analysis programs for important political events like the 2020 Democratic primary and the 2020 general elections.[citation needed]
2021–2022 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.[9][10] They were temporarily replaced with Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky. In July, Kim Iversen took over from Jashinsky,[11] who said on Twitter that she had never intended to do Rising full time.[12][non-primary source needed]
In 2022, Briahna Joy Gray was added to the Rising panel as a new host. The permanent hosts of the show are now Gray, Robby Soave, Kim Iversen, Ryan Grim and Jashinsky. With the current slate of hosts: Ryan Grim and Gray represents the progressive left, Iversen represents the populist left, Jashinsky represents the center-right, and Soave represents libertarian political ideologies.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "The American 'Populist Right' After Trump". The Wire. February 17, 2021. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
Saagar himself recently surpassed a million subscribers on the morning news hour Rising with Krystal and Saagar,... which gained notoriety for its (rightly) favourable coverage of “anti-establishment” presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang when corporate-owned cable news was hostile to both. Soon after, Saagar – a social conservative and fiscal liberal – and avowed socialist co-host Krystal Ball co-authored The Populist’s Guide to 2020 (Strong Arm Press), their bestselling companion to the elections told from what they call “populist left” and “populist right” perspectives.
- ^ "Krystal Ball, Jamal Simmons Join The Hill" (Press release). PR Newswire. January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Halper, Evan (December 12, 2019). "No #Bernieblackout here: Sanders rides a surge of alternative media". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Halper, Evan (December 12, 2019). "No #Bernieblackout here: Sanders rides a surge of alternative media". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
The populist hosts and their guests mercilessly rip into several of the top Democrats in the presidential race and the media covering them, especially MSNBC... The show’s stars find South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg particularly objectionable.
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Kim Iversen (July 29, 2021). "Kim Iversen LIVE: What Was I Doing On CORPORATE Media?!! And More". Retrieved August 27, 2021.
- ^ 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.