{
  "id": 4519147,
  "title": "US Treasury bars certain journalists from G20 meeting in North Carolina",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/us-treasury-bars-certain-journalists-from-g20-meeting-in-north",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-30T22:48:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260830-us-treasury-journalists-from-g20"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The US Treasury Department has denied credentials to certain reporters from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg to cover a Group of 20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the decision was unrelated to the journalists' viewpoints.\n\nThe denied reporters include The New York Times' Alan Rappeport, who has been covering such meetings and the Treasury Department since 2017. However, another reporter for The New York Times, Berlin bureau chief Jim Tankersley, was granted access. The New York Times stated that denying American journalists access to an event in the US is \"a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny.\"\n\nThe Treasury Department's decision is the latest example of restrictions on media access under President Donald Trump's administration. Bessent told the Associated Press that the denial of credentials had \"nothing to do with point of view.\"",
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      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "US Treasury blocks certain journalists from G20 meeting in North Carolina",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/us-treasury-blocks-certain-journalists-from-g20-meeting-in-north",
        "published": "2026-08-30T22:18:10.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Associated Press",
        "title": "US Treasury blocks certain journalists from G20 meeting in North Carolina",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/us-treasury-blocks-certain-journalists-from-g20-meeting-in-north-4517790",
        "published": "2026-08-30T22:23:01.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}