AltWeeklies.com

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Ownership: AltWeeklies.com is published by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, a trade organization for the alternative newspaper business.
Location: The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies is based in Washington, D.C.

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Wiki-Description: The source of this description is the Wikipedia , a free online encyclopedia.

AltWeeklies.com in published by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN). The Wiki entry for AAN is as follows:

"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."

Self-Description: The source of this description is the "About Us" section of the AltWeeklies.com website.

"AltWeeklies.com brings readers the best, most insightful, thought-provoking news and features published in the 126 papers that belong to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Updated throughout the work week, AltWeeklies.com will help readers find the latest news about politics, crime, social issues, the environment, health, sex, food, film, music, art and books -- all with a different perspective from what is generally found on wire-service and daily-newspaper Web sites.

The site also enables alt-weekly editors to find and seek permission to reprint significant stories written by their counterparts in other parts of North America.

The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies was founded in Seattle, Wash., in 1978. It began with 30 newspapers -- among them, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Creative Loafing, Pacific Sun, New Times, Willamette Week and The Chicago Reader. To be accepted for membership, weekly newspapers must demonstrate that they produce a high-quality publication that offers a valuable alternative to the mainstream media in their area. The 123 papers that now make up the association publish in 41 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, and in four Canadian provinces."

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