claims to have more than 22,000 print readers. The Hill is distributed for free in newspaper boxes around the U.S. Capitol building, and mailed directly to all congressional offices. As of 2020, The Hills YouTube channel had 1,100,000 subscribers, ahead of Politico, Axios, and Bloomberg Politics. In October 2020, The Hills YouTube channel averaged over 1.5 million daily video views and more than 10 million per week; in September 2020 it received over 340 million video views. In 2021, The Hill was acquired by Nexstar Media Group for $130 million. Features and editions Hill TV In June 2018, The Hill launched Hill.TV, a digital news channel. The channel features Rising, a daily morning news program first hosted by Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton. In May 2021, Ball and Saagar Enjeti announced they were departing in order to release their own independent project, Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar. Since then, Robby Soave, Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, Emily Jashinsky, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Briahna Joy Gray have hosted the program, along with guests including Colin Rogero, Jamal Simmons, Emily Miller, Alyssa Farah, and Rachel Bovard. Notable stories and awards The National Press Club's annual Sandy Hume Memorial Award is named after staffer Sandy Hume, in recognition of his 1997 reporting in The Hill of an attempted Republican coup against then-speaker Newt Gingrich. In 2019, The Hill won the Society of Professional Journalists' First Prizes for Features ("Celebrities dive into midterms, hoping to thwart Trump") and Series ("How The Trump Tax Law Passed"). In 2020, The Hill won the Society of Professional Journalists' First Prize for Features, for the story "Inside the Secret World of the CIA's Social Media Team". Staffing Masthead Jason Jedlinski, General Manager Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief Josh Awtry, SVP Audience Sarah Katt, SVP Programming Ian Swanson, Managing Editor Jesse Byrnes, Senior Editor Tristan Lejeune, Senior Editor Frank Craig, Contributor Editor Mike Demarest, Audience Development Director Greg Nash, Photo Editor Linda Petre, Production Manager Past James Carville Ron Christie Judd Gregg David Keene Josh Marshall Dick Morris A. B. Stoddard Byron York John Solomon Gen. Michael Hayden (ret.) (former NSA and CIA director) Controversies In 2017, The Hill hired John Solomon. Solomon inserted material from advertisers into journalistic copy, leading to protests from The Hills publisher. Solomon's role was changed to opinion contributor. In March 2018, he conspired to publish a report about the challenged Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory. In September 2019,