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You are interviewing a person who has an amazing story to tell about surviving on the mean streets of your town. He admits he has a drug addiction, but he also has identified a beat cop who has brutalized him, even as the cop obtained drugs for a number of other people.

Your source is prepared to name names, but he wants your tape recorder in exchange. Your news director has told you that new recorders are coming this week, and your old machine will be junked.

The interview is too good to give up. You record the interview and email it back to the station. You have a great interview that will change how people living on the streets are treated, and you will possibly expose an example of police corruption. But you risk being accused of “paying for news” by giving the recorder to the source.