The U.S. Department of the Treasury has not granted credentials to individual reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News to cover the G20 event, reports Ben Mullin of The New York Times.
Mullin reports, “Alan Rappeport, an economic policy reporter who reports on the Treasury Department for The Times, has been excluded from the meeting. Since he began covering the department in 2017, he has attended nearly a dozen G7 and G20 meetings in person.
“Matt Grossman, an economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was also denied a credential. A spokesman for The Journal declined to comment.
“Nicole Taylor, a spokeswoman for The Times, said in a statement that the decision was ‘not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny.'”
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