NEW YORK: Bloomberg LP will appoint an ombudsman and create a task force to review the way the company gathers news after a report confirmed its journalists routinely looked at client information intended for customer support employees.
The report, which Bloomberg commissioned and released on Wednesday, found that journalists could gain access to data including clients' log-in history, contact information and messages that customers left when they were moving firms.
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