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There are likely two good reasons for that. First, studies have shown that the way the media talks about suicide can affect the likelihood of inspiring copycats, which has been shown to be a thing just FTR, and I've noticed a good faith effort in some media to change it for the better. The other is simply if it has heretofore not been established conclusively to be self-inflicted and they're milking it as much as possible to keep people tuning in.
I mean for sure I think they should be waiting for something conclusive.
On a local level here in the UK, they usually just say "was found dead" and "not looking for any suspects/not suspicious" in these cases if they're fairly certain it was suicide - rather than actually using the word suicide, apparent or otherwise.
I think that's a good way to handle it.