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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

That's me.

I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm here today with David Carey, president of Hearst Magazine. I think of him as the guy who runs Hurst, but that's not officially true. In my spare time. There is the someone else who really runs Hurst, but I run the magazine division. Tell us some of the fine titles that you're in charge of at Hurst. We are proud to be the world's largest publisher of monthly magazines,

and so our biggest businesses are Cosmopolitan and Ellen Harper's Bazaar in Esquire and Town and Country.

We are about to, in January, close on the acquisition of Rodale,

bringing men's health and women's health and prevention and bicycling runners' world

into our portfolio,

which will put us over 300 media brands around the world.

So there are a handful of giant magazine publishers left.

You are one of them.

You said you're the biggest by revenue, by title?

Biggest monthly publisher.

So I think timing historically was larger in terms of revenue, but mostly from the weeklies

were the biggest monthly publisher in the world.

I think this will air in January, at which point Time Inc will still be a separate magazine,

but at some point that's supposed to get subsumed by Meredith.

Let's start there.

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