Half Moon Bay Review

{{Short description|American digital newspaper}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

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| name = Half Moon Bay Review

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| type = Digital newspaper

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1898}}

| owners = Coastside News Group

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| publisher = Emma Spaeth

| editor = Peter Tokofsky

| website = [http://www.hmbreview.com hmbreview.com]

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The Half Moon Bay Review is an American online news source that has been serving the Coastside area of San Mateo County, California, from Pacifica to the Santa Cruz County line since 1898. A broadsheet newspaper was published each Wednesday morning until 2024 when the publication switched to digital-only distribution.[https://www.coastsidenews.com/news/were-going-100-percent-digital/article_ea56d94a-ea43-51d1-862c-f2e209c762b0.html We're going 100 percent digital], January 2, 2024 For over 125 years, Coastside News and its predecessors have been providing quality journalism to the San Mateo Coast in the print editions of the Half Moon Bay Review and the Pacifica Tribune. We are continuing that tradition online and in your email inbox. The Review also publishes Coastside, a free monthly magazine.

In October 2020, the Pacifica Tribune was purchased by the Coastside News Group.[https://www.hmbreview.com/news/coastside-news-group-buys-pacifica-tribune/article_6efd2a54-097e-11eb-992e-e3fbb6af4988.html Coastside News Group buys Pacifica Tribune], October 8, 2020 The Coastside-based California benefit corporation that owns the Half Moon Bay Review has added a second newspaper to its portfolio. The Coastside News Group Inc. announced on Thursday that it had purchased the Pacifica Tribune.

The Review is owned by Coastside News Group, Inc., a California Benefit Corporation created by a group of community members.{{Cite news |last1=Mascarenhas |first1=Natasha |date=5 June 2018 |title=Half Moon Bay Review bought by community members |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Half-Moon-Bay-Review-bought-by-community-members-12967001.php |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}} Wick Communications had purchased the Half Moon Bay Review in 1986.{{Cite web |last=Hayden |first=Sara |date=22 November 2017 |title=Parent company seeks to sell HMB Review |url=https://www.hmbreview.com/news/parent-company-seeks-to-sell-hmb-review/article_86274dec-cfd7-11e7-8c8d-bf8788d411f7.html |access-date=May 25, 2024 |website=Half Moon Bay Review}} They announced plans to sell the newspaper in September 2017. A group of community members, calling themselves the Coastside News Group, entered into an agreement to purchase the paper from Wick in February 2018,{{Cite web |date=21 February 2018 |title=Community group plans to buy Review |url=https://www.hmbreview.com/news/community-group-plans-to-buy-review/article_3d651ebc-1736-11e8-8375-5f57dfef752d.html |access-date=May 25, 2024 |website=Half Moon Bay Review}} and the purchase was completed in June 2018.