The ''Altoona Mirror'' is a daily newspaper located in

Altoona, Pennsylvania Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania. It is the principal city of the Altoona Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 Census, making it the eighteenth most populous city in Pennsylvania. ...

. It is the hometown newspaper for Altoona and serves all of

Blair County Blair County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg. The county was created on February 26, 1846, from parts of Huntingdon and Bedford counties. Blai ...

as well as parts of surrounding counties.

History

The newspaper was founded on June 13, 1874 as ''The Evening Mirror'' by Harry E. Slep and George J. Akers (Slep & Akers Company). Akers left the company in 1877, leaving Slep as the sole owner. Mr. Slep's eldest son, William H. Slep, eventually joined the business and the firm became known as H. & W.H. Slep Company. In 1888, the newspaper's name was changed to ''Altoona Mirror''. In 1907, the Slep company name was changed to Mirror Printing Company. The paper remained in the Slep family until being sold to

Thomson Newspapers The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form ...

in 1984. Under Thomson ownership, a Sunday edition was launched in 1987 and the paper switched its weekday publication to mornings starting in 1997. The ''Altoona Mirror'' was sold to current owner Ogden Newspapers in 1998. Dan Slep, a fifth-generation descendant of co-founder Harry E. Slep, became publisher in 2021.

Pennsylvania Mirror

A Mirror Printing Company sister newspaper, the ''Pennsylvania Mirror'', was published between 1968 and 1977 and covered news and events in neighboring

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. As a morning paper, it offered an alternative to the

State College, Pennsylvania State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a college town, dominated economically, culturally and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania Sta ...

-based ''

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'' which was an evening paper.

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