Rahoof is a doctoral student in Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also serving as a Graduate Research Assistant and a Teaching Assistant. His research lies at the intersections of Journalism Studies, Political Communication, and Misinformation.
He is an award-winning journalist with years of newsroom experience in different countries in Asia. He worked as a fact-checker for Agence France Presse (AFP) in Hong Kong, where he was part of a large-scale online verification project commissioned by Meta. He served as a news reporter for a national daily in India. He helped build the environmental magazine Earth.org and took on the position of Editor-in-Chief during its first year of operation in Hong Kong. He was part of two International Journalism fellowships conducted by the International Center For Journalists (ICFJ) and the World Health Organization (WHO). He won two Journalism awards jointly conferred by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Population First for his investigative stories covering the plight of women cops in India.