I don't think journalists have any requirement to publish who the suspects in a case are. Think about it a moment: A suspect hasn't been convicted of anything.

I don't think journalists have any requirement to publish who the suspects in a case are. Think about it a moment: A suspect hasn't been convicted of anything. If there are two suspects for the same crime, then one of them is guaranteed to be innocent. And in the case of mass-shootings, we've seen that the public goes crazy. Wasn't it the boston-marathon bomber that had people performing their own vigilante work and tracking down the wrong person? Sometimes it's better if the news doesn't get involved in pointing fingers at this stage of the investigation. Let the police do their jobs, and report something only after the police are actually sure they have the person they are accusing of the crime. Simply being investigated isn't newsworthy.