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The LCB — or Laslo Congressional Bureau — is 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.
Misinformation: Democrats may laugh off Donald Trump but they fear MAGA misinformation
Mis- & dis-information are flying in key battleground states. While a lot of attention has gone to combatting election interference efforts from President Trump, not enough attention has been paid to the powerful misinformation campaigns already underway from MAGA faithful like Elon Musk. “He should be arrested for putting misinformation out there about people voting,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib told me. Photo original to The LCB: Logan Michael
Following Trump’s lead, Republicans are spinning new AI conspiracies on Capitol Hill
President Donald Trump has an artificial intelligence ally in Commerce Committee Chair, Sen. Ted Cruz, who opposes most all proposals to regulate AI, as veteran technology writer Matt Laslo reports from Washington, DC.
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.
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.
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: 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.
WIRED: The Fight Over Section 230—and the Internet as We Know It
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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.
Oklahoma’s KGOU News: Rural cell phone service in parts of Oklahoma may soon become harder
Oklahoma’s KGOU News: Rural cell phone service in parts of Oklahoma may soon become harder
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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.