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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.
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DHS head accused of sounding brazen 'dog whistle' in scramble to save job
As President Donald Trump and his administration turned their focus to “election security” in recent months, alumni of the Select Jan. 6, 2021 Committee have been left scratching their heads, wondering if anyone around the president has even a cursory understanding of the American Constitution.
'Leave us the hell alone!' Dem bigwigs warned of catastrophe if they swarm into Maine
Mainers don’t like when national politics take over their local elections.
Five-word pledge splitting Democrats: Socialism v Capitalism — is a Democratic civil war afoot?
Capitalist or (democratic) socialist? That’s the question starting to drive a wedge between the moderate and AOC’s progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Party leaders say there’s nothing to see here, even after the three progressives New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed won their primaries earlier this week, which has the party’s leftward flank all but dancing in the streets.
Presidential Debate Reveals the Stigma Around Addiction in US
The worst part was that the nearly half a million lives lost to the opioid epidemic over the past two decades were only brought into the debate as dueling punchlines. So too were the millions of Americans still struggling with addiction to opioids – a bipartisan, government subsidized killer.
Tallahassee’s WFSU: Florida Democratic US Senator Bill Nelson files lawsuit against the DNC over state’s primary date
Tallahassee’s WFSU: Florida Democratic US Senator Bill Nelson files lawsuit against the DNC over state’s primary date
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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.