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By Ben Finley | Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world\u2019s most powerful countries, the latest example of how President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has restricted media access.<\/p>\n

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Individual reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News were not granted credentials to the Group of 20 finance ministers\u2019 meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, the Times reported.<\/p>\n

The Treasury has not explained the decision. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that \u201cit has nothing to do with point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reporters who\u2019ve been denied access include the Times\u2019 Alan Rappeport, who has been covering such meetings and the Treasury Department since 2017. However, another reporter for the Times, Berlin bureau chief Jim Tankersley, is allowed to attend.<\/p>\n

The Times said in a statement that denying American journalists access to an event in the U.S. is \u201cnot just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the war in Iran, sanctions, the bond markets, and inflation on the agenda for the G20 finance ministers, the stakes of this gathering are significant for the global economy and the American people,\u201d the Times said. \u201cExcluding specific reporters and entire news organizations is a disservice to the public and an assault on press freedoms that we strongly condemn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloomberg News, in a story published Sunday evening, said \u201cnumerous\u201d journalists from the news agency, including some based in Europe and Asia, had their accreditation requests rejected. It said denying the agency access to the meeting \u201cundermines media freedom and public accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Wall Street Journal declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Bessent is hosting the G20 meeting, which runs Saturday through Tuesday. It includes finance ministers, central bank governors and senior officials from the world\u2019s top economies. This year\u2019s G20 summit, which involves heads of state, is being held in December at Trump\u2019s golf club in Doral, Florida.<\/p>\n

Tensions have been escalating between the U.S. media and the second Trump administration, playing out both in the public arena and at times in the courts.<\/p>\n

For example, the Defense Department declared earlier this year that its press office had become a classified space inaccessible to journalists. The ouster came after the Pentagon had demanded that reporters agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, prompting most news outlets to leave the building last fall.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press has also sued Trump over access to the White House press pool. The news organization\u2019s access was curtailed for sticking with the name \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d after the administration ordered it rechristened the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein in Asheville, N.C., contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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