The Armenian Mirror-Spectator is a newspaper published by the Baikar Association, in Watertown, Massachusetts

Watertown, Massachusetts

The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.- History :Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from England...

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The original raison d'être for the newspaper was to create a vehicle to bridge the growing generation gap

Generation gap

The generational gap is and was a term popularized in Western countries during the 1960s referring to differences between people of a younger generation and their elders, especially between children and parents....

 between Armenian-American

Armenian-American

Armenian Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Armenia. During the United States 2000 Census, 385,488 respondents indicated either full or partial Armenian ancestry...

s since the 1920s. Thus, the Armenian Democratic Liberal Organization

Ramgavar Party

The Armenian Democratic Liberal Party or the Ramgavar Party, , also known by its Armenian initials or its English initials ADL is an Armenian political party in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora including the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Australia.It was established in the...

(ADL) determined at its 1931 convention to establish an English-language Armenian weekly; the first of its kind. The Armenian Mirror was launched on July 1, 1932, with Elisha B. Chakrian as the founding editor. In 1939, the Armenian Mirror merged with The Spectator in New York to form the Armenian Mirror-Spectator.