AP reports Treasury barred reporters from Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal from the G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. Other outlets were kept out too. Treasury has not said why.
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Treasury barred Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal from covering the G20 finance meeting
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The Wall Street Journal was among the news organizations barred.
Attributed to AP and Bloomberg secondhand; no WSJ statement or Treasury confirmation is cited naming the paper.
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The G20 finance ministers meeting took place in Asheville, North Carolina.
Venue detail appears only in the story text; neither cited source is quoted confirming it, and the Bloomberg headline omits a location.
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Treasury has not said publicly which criteria decided who was excluded.
A negative claim about the absence of a statement; plausible and consistent with the reporting, but unverifiable from the sources given and true only as of publication.