New York Times Reporters Told Not To Open Hacked Sony Emails, Some Of Which Involve The Times

By: Michael Calderone | Huffington Post

NEW YORK -– The massive Sony hack has left editors with a decision sure to be studied in media ethics classes for years to come: Should journalists report on materials stolen from a corporation by hackers?

The New York Times, for one, has covered revelations from the hacked Sony emails, but only after they've first been made public by other news organizations. Executive editor Dean Baquet said Monday it “would be a disservice to our readers to pretend" that already-surfaced documents "weren’t revealing and public.