Published: March 01, 1996
Last Updated: March 01, 1997
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A candidate for mayor calls the newsroom to say another candidate in the race was arrested on a felony drug charge 20 years ago.

The charge was reduced to a misdemeanor in a plea-bargain agreement. In the course of researching the story, you learn that your political reporter has known about the incident for some time but has not shared that information with the supervising editor. What would you do?