David Carey

Two days after Wired lost its publisher to The Atlantic, the magazine has its replacement.

Chris Mitchell, the publisher of Details, will move over to take over the VP/publisher role at Wired magazine, Condé Nast group president David Carey told Media Mob. Mitchell has been the publisher of Details since 2004, and before that worked as the advertising director of Wired and was an associate publisher of The New Yorker.  read more »

On a recent Monday morning David Carey, group president of Condé Nast since early January, welcomed Off the Record to his spacious and spare 18th-floor corner office at 4 Times Square with his hand extended. “Want a smoothie?” he asked, gesturing to a table full of fruit and yogurt parfaits.

The auburn-haired Mr. Carey, 46, is of formidable height—6-foot-1—but has a dad’s slouched, somewhat recessive posture. Grabbing a plate of cantaloupe, he spoke about life in Scarsdale, which he shares with four kids—two pairs of fraternal, mixed-sex twins—and his wife, Lauri, who used to work in special events at the Metropolitan Opera but is now a homemaker. “It’s been fascinating to see all these high-rise towers going up in White Plains and they just opened a Ritz-Carlton, too,” he said, between chomps. “Not just a hotel. But beautiful residences. They have all these condos, and they sold out very quickly.”  read more »