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The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) is the trade association of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States. AAN provides services to a large number of generally liberal or progressive weekly newspapers across the United States and in Canada. According to its self-description, AAN "is a diverse group of 125 non-daily free-circulation papers that are distributed in all of the major metropolitan areas of North America. Each paper has a distinct, local identity that sets it apart from the mainstream press in its market."
Usually commercial, the weekly alternative newspapers emerged either as competiton to, or from within, the underground press in the United States in the 1970s. AAN supplanted the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), which had tried to compete with AAN, and had even changed its name to the Alternative Press Syndicate, before collapsing.
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