To go along with the San Francisco Giants sweeping the Dodgers at Chavez Ravine this week, Bay Area media are beginning to trumpet another piece of very good local news – Twitter’s decision to keep its offices in San Francisco.

Local ABC affiliate KGO-TV got the first on-camera look yesterday at Twitter’s new Market Street HQ, tagging along with Katie Couric. The veteran TV newswoman talked about how important the social media network has been for her and the role it will play in her upcoming syndicated talk show Katie, debuting September 10:

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Watching yesterday from the second floor Culver City control room as The Young Turks’ tireless host Cenk Uygur conducted a split-screen interview about – what else – contentious DC politics, FishbowlLA marveled at the talent everyone there talks about. His ability to do an entire, fast-paced current affairs program without benefit of a teleprompter.

“I’ve worked over the years with Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, Chris Matthews…” raved senior producer Roland Woerner. “I’ve never seen anyone with the ability to do a program like this without a teleprompter.”

The same goes for Uygur’s control-room brain trust. When a host and program run off a teleprompter, all sorts of cues can be “tagged in,” to help coordinate when to throw to a graphic, guest, specific camera shot and so on. With Uygur, there is no such safety net; the resulting flow, presided over with a masterful, arms-wide touch by director Genji Keen, is infectious. TYT’s ultra-modern and even-tempered operation is the kind of 21st century outlet many unemployed journalists would kill to be able to work for.

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Katie Couric has just become the first TV news mega-personality to dive headfirst into the waters of online news. Yahoo and ABC News have partnered to produce Couric’s latest news venture Katie’s Take, which will air exclusively online.

From AdWeek:

Katie’s Take will be one of the shows Yahoo rolls out this afternoon during its NewFront event—one of several upfront-style ad buyer presentations designed to more or less ask buyers to move a chunk of their TV dollars over to digital as that market expands into programming models similar to those on television.

Yahoo is hoping the addition of traditional TV news vets like Couric and the rest of the ABC News crew will add some flavor to its content, which is mostly aggregated. “It’s given us more editorial voice and personality,” said Yahoo vp of video programming Erin McPherson. Presumably, Yahoo and ABC News hope that if launch sponsor Nestlé is seen advertising its Poland Spring brand on Katie’s Take as the starter pistol is fired, other companies will see the program as a good advertising opportunity.

Katie’s Take will have it’s own page on Yahoo. Couric, meanwhile, will continue to appear on TV as a correspondent for ABC News.

He’s still got it.

The long odyssey surrounding his abrupt departure from Two and a Half Men is long over, but Charlie Sheen still knows how to throw a party, and he still has strong feelings about the incident, even if he doesn’t exactly know what happened.

“I don’t know what it was, I am still baffled by it. Can that ever happen again, the way it did?” Sheen told us, after being asked whether another celebrity could find themselves in a similar situation. “Who could you make Being John Malkovich about, if not John Malkovich?”

The ArKadia nightclub at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach has been taken over by Sheen, Lionsgate TV and Debmar-Mercury, the producer and distributor of his new show, Anger Management. There are mermaids swimming in the outdoor pool, and women dressed as tables (yes, seriously) on which drinks have been placed. There are a handful of celebrities in attendance, including Katie Couric, Jeff Probst, Ricki Lake and Steve Harvey.

We are sitting in Sheen’s VIP cabana, it is nearly midnight. He would have an excellent view of the mermaids and the pool, except there is a throng of people on the other side of the velvet rope, wanting to say hi.

“It looks like chaos, but everyone is happy to see me, nothing but kind words to offer,” he says.

That doesn’t mean he is pleased with the way he has treated in the press. When asked about making the press rounds to promote his new show, he replied with a rebuke of the harsh words that have been thrown at him over the last year.

“I don’t really care, because I don’t take any of it personally, it is just words, coming from people that don’t know anything about me. So how much stock can you put in it, you know, a strangers random opinion?” Sheen said. “It is like getting mad at a three-year old for hurting your feelings. I never read anything anymore, because all that happens is you get upset.”

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At Monday’s Social Media Week LA panel “Facebook’s Impact on Entertainment PR and Marketing,” held at the Paley Center and moderated by KTLA reporter Rich DeMuro, the two panelists with the most impressive credentials both happened to be CNN alums.

Kay Madati (pictured) oversees entertainment strategy at Facebook, working closely with the studios and TV networks, while Eric Kuhn is responsible for helping United Talent Agency clients learn how to properly leverage social media. Madati talked about the king of the Facebook celebrity world, Vin Diesel, who currently has more than 27.6 million fans:

“What Vin has actually been able to do is be really real and authentic, without having to let the world into every corner of his life. But he’s active on it; this is not just that he shows up on the page when he’s got a movie to promote.

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Dang, Katie Couric is funny. Good job!

Female entertainers who make upwards of $20 million a year normally get a little more media respect than Chelsea Handler. According to an entertaining profile in Newsweek, that’s how much the host of E!’s Chelsea Lately earned in 2010 thanks to an ever-expanding empire that encompasses books, large venue stand-up comedy performances and various in-progress TV spinoffs.

Handler tells reporter Jennie Yabroff she is aware of the discrepancy between her success and media coverage, but that overall she’s fine with “being a bit under the radar.” Writes Yabroff:

Unlike Tina Fey or Jon Stewart, Handler is not a darling of the media elite. She rarely appears on magazine covers. She’s never hosted Saturday Night Live (though a Facebook group is lobbying for this to happen). Her books aren’t reviewed by The New York Times. And when they do notice her, critics are unkind.

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After 25 years, Larry King signed off for the last time last night. CNN’s “Larry King Live” is no more, as King has called it quits. His final show was a pretty star-studded affair. But no segment was better than Katie Couric‘s poem. Haha. Just kidding. Dear God, no.

No segment was better than King interviewing himself, with a little help from SNL’s Fred Armisen.

King’s whole show is posted on YouTube. Watch it after the jump if you’re so inclined.

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Sarah Palin‘s archenemy Katie Couric who “annoyingly” asked the Veep candidate questions in 2008 and expected (gasp!) an answer. That deserves the ire of the mighty Facebooking $100K per word-salad presenter. Now Couric has done it again, interviewing Gloria Steinem and asking her if Palin is a feminist.

“We’re free to call ourselves whatever we wish, but I think her calling herself a feminist has mostly to do with how many votes Hillary Clinton got in the presidential race,” said Steinem. Zing!

Hat tip Mediate.

Jon Stewart spoofs the sudden media interest in Chat Roulette. The bit has cameos by Liz Claman, Keith Olbermann, Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer.