 Royal's rationale is practically a job description: After all, "programming and data is journalism," Royal says. "And it can be practiced in such a way that it can create interaction, user engagement, and more information in terms of seeking the truth. Especially when you talk about Freedom of Information access to government data  -  if the public can have access to that in a way that makes sense to them, or in a way that's easy for them to use, then that's just really powerful."  