The Haight Ashbury Beat is a free, independent neighborhood newspaper that began in February 2004. The Beat covers news in the following San Francisco neighborhoods: Upper Haight, Lower Haight, Cole Valley, Panhandle & Divisadero corridor.

The Beat was originally a San Francisco Observer newspaper, but went solo in August 2005, when publisher Jeremy Bates took over.

The Beat joins a long line of Haight-Ashbury papers, including the San Francisco Oracle

San Francisco Oracle

The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle, was an underground newspaper published in 12 issues from September 20, 1966, to February 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of that city...

, the Haight Ashbury Free Press, the Haight Ashbury Newspaper and The Street.