Umer Kureshi
Umer Kureshi founded UAE Current and is the editor accountable for everything it publishes, from sourcing rules to corrections.
- Based in
- UAE Current newsroom
- Covers
- Editorial standards, Corrections
- Articles
- First stories coming soon
About Umer
Umer Kureshi is the founder and editor-in-chief of UAE Current. He wrote its editorial standards, its corrections policy and its policy on AI-assisted reporting, and he is the person responsible for every article the site publishes.
Each of UAE Current's six desks researches and drafts its stories under those standards. Umer reviews the work before it goes live, decides corrections, and answers complaints sent to the newsroom.
He also founded Pakistan Era (pakera.pk), a news and guides site for Pakistan that runs on the same verification-first method. He is Head of SEO and Marketing at Bestax Chartered Accountants, which works across the UAE and Canada, and Search and Performance Lead at Wide Ripples Digital.
He is a graduate of Government College University Lahore, with a BS (Hons) in Management Sciences, and holds an SEO certification from the University of California.
What Umer covers
Editorial standards
How UAE Current sources, checks, dates and corrects every article.
Review and sign-off
The final read of each desk's work before it is published.
Corrections and complaints
Deciding and recording corrections openly on the article.