Journalists who respect their craft report verifiable facts like, "According to police, excuse-me is a suspect in an ongoing investigation into [serious crime].

Journalists who respect their craft report verifiable facts like, "According to police, excuse-me is a suspect in an ongoing investigation into [serious crime]." This story may damage you, but if a professional journalistic organization went to press with it, it is almost certainly verifiably true (barring a malicious reporter whose editor/fact-checker was laid off five years ago because Information Wants To Be Free). Until your trial, "excuse-me committed [serious crime]" is undetermined and possibly libelous, but assuming the police did, in fact, name you as a suspect, "Police say excuse-me committed [serious crime]" true and therefore not libelous. There is a reason newspapers write that way.