sigh OK let's go to school Robert:

-These guidelines generally apply to all members of the news and editorial departments whose work directly affects the content of the paper

-Theater, music and art critics and other writers who review goods or services offered to the public may conceal their Times connection but may not normally assert a false identity or affiliation

-Staff members who borrow equipment, vehicles or other goods for evaluation or review must return the borrowed items as soon as possible.

-Staff members may keep for their own collections — but may not sell or copy — books, recordings, tapes, compact discs and computer programs sent to them for review. Such submissions are considered press releases. Recorded or digital media, such as tapes or disks, must be destroyed or returned to the provider if not retained by the journalist; they may not be copied, given away or left where they could be carried off for illicit copying or reuse [Polygon's Ben Kuchera has admitted violating this one]

-Reporters, reviewers, critics and their editors in the Book Review, the Times Magazine and the cultural news, media news and styles departments, beyond abiding by the other provisions of this document, may not help others develop, market or promote artistic, literary or other creative endeavors.

-They may not comment, even informally, on works in progress before those works are reviewed.

-Certain positions, such as those of the Book Review editor and the culture editor, have such potential for conflicts that those editors may not enter into any commercial arrangements with publishers, studios, or other arts producers without the executive editor’s written approval [Violated by Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra]

And one very special one, relevant to Kotaku's Nathan Grayson:

-Yet staff members, especially those assigned to beats, must be sensitive that personal relationships with news sources can erode into favoritism, in fact or appearance. And conversely staff members must be aware that sources are eager to win our good will for reasons of their own.