Lu Parker and Ginger Chan portray KTLA reporters (with Chan in a helicopter) and are real life reporters for the station.
Sharon is looking at a newspaper with the banner "Palisades Post" when Asst. Chief Taylor enters her office to discuss media coverage. There is an actual community newspaper for the Pacific Palisades area where the crime scene is located with a similar name: The Palisadian-Post.
Ms. Slater when she visits Sharon explains she is dropping by briefly but her main reason to be in the area is to visit "the mart" (mentioning she works in the jewelry industry). This refers to the real life Jewelry Mart on the south end of downtown Los Angeles.