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The LCB’s Washington, DC's only digital, broadcast-first wire service. We connect tens of millions of listeners, viewers and readers nationwide to Beltway power players through newsroom partnerships that turn us into an extension of any newsroom. Besides delivering exclusive interviews and localized policy coverage to regional, national and specialty outlets, The LCB works with our partner outlets to develop, coordinate and deploy new-media strategies tailored to today’s AI era aimed at bolstering understaffed newsrooms and helping small publications generate national buzz.
Founded by veteran journalist, AI consultant and new media Lecturer Matt Laslo, who has covered Congress for 100+ outlets since 2006.
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We exist to break the internet for your newsroom. It’s what makes our founder, Matt Laslo, tick.
Since 2006, Laslo’s pushed the new media envelope for an array of eclectic outlets, including Emmy Award-winning VICE News Tonight with HBO, award-winning NPR member stations, The Daily Beast, This American Life or Laslo’s much-cited tech-forward political coverage for WIRED magazine.
As a former homeless cokehead (turned pastor-in-training at a Presbyterian college in the south), there’s not a topic Laslo’s afraid of. His envelope-pushing drug coverage for Rolling Stone, Playboy and VICE News has turned heads from coast to coast, which is why it was only natural for Aspen Ideas Festival organizers to tap him to moderate the fest’s first-ever cannabis panel back in 2019.
Let us know your newsroom’s needs — along with your audience craves! — and we’re on it.
Rolling Stone: 2017: The Year Pot Policy Stood Still as Opioids Ravaged the Nation
LCB founder Matt Laslo’s covered marijuana policy and the opioid epidemic for dozens of regional news outlets, and also national magazines like Rolling Stone and Playboy.
KQED EXCLUSIVE — Showhorses vs. Workhorses: What makes an effective US Senator?
San Francisco’s award-winning NPR station KQED and NPR stations across the Golden State have relied on The LCB and Matt Laslo for original coverage of the California delegation for years.
Philadelphia’s WHYY: Some Dems insincere on gun law reforms, Toomey and Manchin say
The LCB’s founder Matt Laslo covered gun control and partisanship and trade wars and tech issues for Philadelphia’s WHYY NPR member station for years.
Vermont Public Radio: Sanders Introduces Bill To End Federal Marijuana Ban
The LCB’s Matt Laslo was the Washington, DC correspondent for Vermont Public Radio before anyone had really heard of Bernie Sanders pre-Election 2016
NPR’s Weekend Edition via WYPR: Baltimore’s Freddie Gray protests turn violent
NPR’s Weekend Edition hired The LCB to cover the first day of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray protests, which turned violent…
Miami’s WLRN: Why Some South Florida Lawmakers Remain Opposed To Normalized Relations With Cuba
Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB have covered Washington politics and crazy Florida politicians and politics for Miami NPR member station WLRN
Washington, DC’s WAMU: Local lawmakers make plea to combat opioid abuse
Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo is an award-winning reporter who has covered Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court since 2006. While he’s filed stories for NPR and more than 40 of its affiliates, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Omaha World-Herald, and Washingtonian.
North Country Public Radio: In campaigns free "franked" mail is a big incumbent advantage
The LCB’s Matt Laslo conducts original enterprise reporting and then localizes Washington political reporting for individual news outlets nationwide.
Fairfield, CT — WSHU: Obama highlights grieving Newtown families in State of the Union address
WSHU Fairfield Connecticutt’s logo, a longtime client of The LCB founder Matt Laslo who’s covered gun control and mass shootings since the Newtown Sandyhook massacre.
Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio: Lawmakers describe 2013 as year of dysfunction, frustrations
The LCB’s Matt Laslo did his MA thesis on hyper-partisanship and has covered congressional dysfunction for dozens of local news outlets nationwide since arriving in DC in 2006.
WAMU: Police Chase Ends In Shots Fired Outside US Capitol — two officers injured, female suspect killed
The LCB and founder Matt Laslo won Breaking News Award for live reporting during 2013 Capitol shooting; mentally ill mother killed w/ infant in back seat (2014; Chesapeake AP Broadcasters Association).
“A mom died for my 1st “trophy,” so I refuse to call myself “award-winning,”” Laslo says.
NHPR: NH Congressional delegation reacts to gun control measures
Matt Laslo covered Congress, including gun control, presidential elections, primaries, budget issues and cannabis, and the New Hampshire congressional delegation in Washington for more than a decade.
WEKU & Kentucky Public Radio: As Wars Wind Down, Depot Left Without Work
The LCB and founder Matt Laslo covered southeastern Kentucky coal country and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and libertarian Rand Paul for WEKU and Kentucky Public Radio for more than a decade.
Nashville’s WPLN: Cooper, Black Join ‘Fix Congress Now’ Caucus
Matt Laslo and The LCB covered Congress and Washington politics and hyper-partisanship and some bipartisanship for award-winning Nashville NPR station member station WPLN for years.
Boston’s WBUR: Dirt Vs. Synthetic Tracks - What's Best For Horse Racing?
Veteran poilitical journalist and longtime Regional Reporters Association board member Matt Laslo escapes the Washington Beltway by reporting on sports, from horse racing to NHL and NFL games
Arizona Public Radio, KNAU: McCain, Campaign Finance and Super Pacs
Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo has been covering Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court since 2006. While he has filed stories for more than 50 local NPR stations, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, National Public Radio, The Omaha World-Herald, Pacifica Radio, Politics Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine.
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The LCB captured this exclusive video of Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar calling out Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt during former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s contentious 2026 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.