Mediagazer: Purdue University will investigate police treatment of student reporter (Kristen Hare/Poynter)

6:20 PM ET, February 3, 2014

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Purdue University will investigate police treatment of student reporter — Purdue University's Office of Legal Counsel responded to requests for an investigation from the student newspaper and the National Press Photographers Association over the Jan. 21 detention of student photojournalist Michael Takeda.