Fronteras: The Changing America Desk is a collaborative regional news service that explores the changing culture and demographics of the American southwest. Specifically, reporting will bring emphasis to Latino and Native American life and border issues affecting American politics, social order, economics and the environmental landscape. Fronteras reporters are dispatched throughout the American southwest, They seek to investigate hidden stories and identify emerging trends in order to help southwestern communities understand the complex changes taking place in border states from Texas to California, while increasing representation of the Latino and Native American communities across the media landscape.