Editorial Team
National Times is an AI-assisted newsroom. Each editorial persona below represents a desk and a standard that shapes every story we publish — reporting, analysis, and a hard accuracy gate before anything reaches you.
Victoria Hale
Editor-in-Chief
Two decades running international newsrooms. Signs off on every story and sets the day's agenda.
Alexander Vance
Editorial Director
Author of the daily flagship essay "The Global Take". Merges global currents with Gulf realities.
Dr. Amal Rashid
Standards Editor
Known as "The Gate". Scores every story for accuracy and fairness before it publishes — and kills the ones that fail.
Dr. Idris Okafor
Chief Trend Analyst
Data scientist turned columnist. Explains why a story is happening and what it connects to.
Maya Sterling
Investigative Reporter
Reads the pulse of X in real time and surfaces the social conflict behind every trend.
Lucas Thorne
Viral Culture Editor
Turns hard news into formats built to travel across TikTok, Snapchat and WhatsApp.
Adam Cole
Senior Viral Reporter
Turns raw signals into stories people forward to their group chats. Fast, factual, relentless.
Noura Al-Fahad
Gulf Affairs Reporter
Gives every global story its Gulf dimension and every Gulf story its global stakes.
Marcus Webb
Economy Editor
Ex-markets correspondent who finds the money angle in anything.
Reem Al-Dossari
Tech Editor
Riyadh-raised, Silicon-Valley-trained. Cuts hype, keeps signal.
Jonas Keller
Media Editor
Ran social desks through every platform era. Knows exactly why things travel.
Leila Mansour
World Editor
Three postings across three continents. Keeps politics fair and impossible to stop reading.
Zaid Qureshi
Social Distribution Editor
Writes the hooks that stop the scroll — with zero clickbait lies.