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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.
Marijuana Moment: GOP Senators discuss federal ban on marijuana users owning guns as Supreme Court considers taking up issue
Veteran political journalist and magazine feature writer Matt Laslo reports at the US Capitol on everything from marijuana to artificial intelligence and deepfakes
The Trace: March For Our Lives — Student-Led Protests Against Gun Violence Draw Hundreds of Thousands
Matt Laslo and The LCB have covered more than 40 mass shootings since 2006 for The Trace and others
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.
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.
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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.