Bloomberg failed to immediately block its news reporters from access to information about clients who use the company’s well-known financial data terminals when the issue arose as the result of a 2011 Bloomberg TV broadcast, an independent review has concluded.

Instead, Bloomberg reporters continued to have access to the client data until April 2013, when an embarrassing similar incident prompted a financial client’s complaint and sparked an overhaul of the company’s policies and practices regarding the access.

In the interest of full disclosure, we use a Bloomberg terminal and often run articles from Bloomberg.   Bloomberg Trying to Sort Out Journalistic Ethics