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Ask a Pol Crypto — EXCLUSIVE: Democrats want "more time” for crypto negotiations, Sen. Bill Hagerty says
Ask a Pol Crypto is LCB founder Matt Laslo’s interactive politics news outlet.
'Sick of it': Republicans are increasingly frustrated with bungling on Epstein fiasco
LCB client AlterNet’s logo — an A.
Washingtonian magazine: 5 queer lawmakers we’re celebrating this month
Washingtonian magazine tapped The LCB founder Matt Laslo to profile five national LGBTQ+ lawmakers for their 50th Anniversary of PRIDE issue in 2025.
NNN: LCB exclusive with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ahead of Biden’s apology for past US Indian boarding school policies
Since 2006 Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB have covered Indian Country and Native issues in Washington for National Native News.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: Utah’s Democratic delegates are returning from Chicago’s DNC feeling electric
Salt Lake City’s KUER relies on the regionally-focused national wire service The LCB to cover Washington politics and the local Utah delegation for the award-winning NPR member station.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: ‘We’re tighter as a party’: What Utah’s delegates had to say about the RNC
Matt Laslo and his regionally-focused national wire service The LCB have covered the Utah delegation in Washington, DC and at political conventions across the US for more than a decade.
Ask a Pol AI — EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rounds wants US to use AI to fight deepfakes in 2024 election
Upending Washington one interview at a time Ask a Pol — ie, ask a politician — is your conduit to Congress. We're veteran journalists. The Capitol’s our office. Senators our sources — well, now your sources too.
Wyoming Public Media: Chris Christie called out Sen. Barrasso when he withdrew from the presidential race. Why does it matter?
Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo covered energy, climate change, gun control, The Cheneys, the federal budget, tech, new media and wild fires, along with the Jan. 6, 2021 US Capitol insurrection, for Wyoming Public Media for more than a decade.
WIRED: Congress Sure Made a Lot of Noise About Kids’ Privacy in 2023—and Not Much Else
WIRED logo — The LCB founder and correspondent Matt Laslo is a WIRED magazine technology and politics correspondent covering AI, gun control and data privacy
WIRED: Joe Biden’s Big AI Plan Sounds Scary—but Lacks Bite
WIRED contributor and veteran data privacy and technology and generative artificial intelligence, AI expert Matt Laslo
Mississippi Today: Senate confirms U.S. attorney Todd Gee, who will inherit historic Mississippi welfare probe
After Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolf was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting, the nonprofit news outlet relied on The LCB to assist with follow-up reporting from Washington
Raw Story: Who runs Washington? US Senators sit quietly at feet of Silicon Valley billionaires in AI forum
The LCB covered generative artificial intelligence, or AI, for WIRED magazine and wire service client Raw Story.
Raw Story exclusive — Deepfake democracy: How AI is bamboozling Congress and threatening Election 2024
WIRED magazine tech and AI reporter Matt Laslo covers generative artificial intelligence for The LCB’s regional and national news outlet clients.
Orlando Weekly: Fla. Sen. Rick Scott says Democrats ‘constantly go to taking somebody’s Second Amendment rights away’ following Uvalde shooting
Regionally-focused national wire service The LCB brings Congress to life for dozens of local news outlets nationwide, covering everything from gun control and mass shootings to generative artificial intelligence and data privacy
2023 EPPY Award winner: 0-for-1,523 — US Senators attempt to explain…ethics violations
LCB founder Matt Laslo helped turn Raw Story into an award-winning news outlet within a year of covering Washington politics for the new media digital news outlet.
WIRED: The US Congress Is Starting to Question This Whole Crypto Thing
Since 2019, Matt’s been a WIRED magazine contributor, covering everything from data privacy and artificial intelligence — namely, generative AI — to crypto and even UAP (aka UFOs).
Matt’s data privacy coverage for WIRED has been quoted in 20+ law reviews, including the Duke Law and Technology Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, University of Illinois Chicago Law Review, etc. His Section 230 work is also quoted in FCC filings and books — like Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2022) or Internet Law (Grey House Publishing, 2020). It’s also been assigned at NYU, UNC Chapel Hill, DePaul, UT Austin Law School, etc.
Raw Story: Exclusive: All 50 Senate Republicans weigh in on Jan. 6 hearings – only 8 are watching
The LCB’s Matt Laslo regularly breaks news for award-winning client Raw Story, including when Laslo doggedly chased down half of the United States Senate in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Laslo’s office since 2006.
Outlaw Report — Cannabis Caucus Co-chair says no concrete plan to combine expungement with SAFE Banking Act
Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB cover marijuana policy for The Outlaw Report
