The New York Times said in a statement that denying American journalists access to an event in the U.S. is “not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny.”

The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world’s most powerful countries.

The US Treasury Department denied credentials to reporters from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg for a Group of 20 finance meeting in North Carolina, the…

US Treasury bars some reporters from G20 finance talks