David Carey

David Carey is senior vice president of public affairs and communications at Hearst. Previously, Carey served as the chairman of Hearst Magazines, after serving as president for eight years. In January 2019, he became a Fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, a university-wide program that each year selects a small group of senior executives from around the world to spend two semesters on the Harvard campus studying solutions to large-scale societal problems.

As one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines, with more than 10,000 employees worldwide, Hearst Magazines has more than 300 editions and 240 websites globally, including more than 25 titles in the U.S., where its print and digital assets reach 155 million readers and site visitors each month. Hearst Magazines has wholly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures in the U.K., Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, China, Taiwan and Japan.

During Carey’s tenure as president, Hearst Magazines more than doubled in size, with the 2011 acquisition of more than 100 magazines in 14 countries from Lagardère SCA, the 2018 acquisition of Rodale’s global media assets, as well as new joint ventures with Scripps (now Discovery) and leading technology companies. Carey also expanded Hearst's leadership position in its B2B services platforms unit, via the acquisitions of customer experience management solutions companies KUBRA and iFactor.

Previously, Carey was group president at Condé Nast, where he oversaw the company’s media properties targeted to executive audiences. He was publisher of The New Yorker from 1998 to 2005, returning it to profitability after years of losses. Earlier in his career, Carey was the founding publisher of SmartMoney, a joint venture between Hearst Magazines and The Wall Street Journal.