The Frontier is an investigative news and multi-media platform website that practices long-form, watchdog journalism related to the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
In 2018, it was chosen as one of three finalists for the 2017 annual award in the Scripps Howard Foundation's Community Journalism category, for its series, "Shadow Land: How Rape Stays Hidden in Oklahoma.
Its competitors include the state's major daily newspapers: The Oklahoman, published by GateHouse Media owned by Fortress Investment Group and its investor Softbank since October 1, 2018, and formerly owned since 2011 by Denver-based billionaire businessman Philip Anschutz and his Anschutz Corporation;[6] and the Tulsa World, which was sold in 2013 to Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media Group, controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett.
[7] The Frontier has partnered on Oklahoma stories with national and international media, such as the Marshall Project, and the Guardian in Great Britain.
The resulting public awareness of incarceration issues news stories by Frontier, The Oklahoman and Tulsa World spurred policy changes within the agency by 2018 newly elected Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt who led the release of over 500 non-violent offender inmates.