Summary

The New York Times has a set of six ethics guides: an ethical journalism guidebook, guidelines on integrity, social media guidelines, reader comment guidelines, editorial standards, and guidelines for advertising. The Ethical Journalism Guidebook, like the other documents, is less a code of practice and more a handbook containing advice and guidance. Nonetheless, a set of ethical principles may be derived from the document. The primary value is to describe the news impartially - "without fear or favour", as stated by "patriarch" Adolph Ochs (NYT, 2018).
The primary focus of the Ethical Journalism Guidebook is avoidance of conflict of interest, and it addresses exhaustively the ways in which a journalist could be in a real or perceived conflict of interest, and counsels against them, while allowing for certain exceptions (for example, accepting press passes to events for the purpose of covering them). The Times has "additional guidelines" addressing integrity (NYT, 2008). These focus on such things as quotations, fact checking, attribution, corrections, and similar topics specific to journalism. The Times's social media guidelines (NYT, 2017), meanwhile, assert that in "social media posts, our journalists must not express partisan opinions, promote political views, endorse candidates, make offensive comments or do anything else that undercuts The Times's journalistic reputation."

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