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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.
GOP angry with Utah Senator demanding investigation into gifts Trump Jr. took from Russian Oligarch
Republican US Senator John Curtis is calling for a corruption investgation into the wedding gifts a Russian Oligarch lavished on Donald Trump Jr. and his bride, along with the alledged longtime grifting of former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
Inside the Republican Party’s civil war over whether America’s at “war” with Iran or not
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'Sick of it': Republicans are increasingly frustrated with bungling on Epstein fiasco
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The Gun Debate Washington Isn’t Having
The Gun Debate Washington Isn’t Having. Unlike some GOP governors in recent years, Republicans on Capitol Hill refuse to even entertain gun safety measures. Strangely, polls steadily show that puts GOP lawmakers out of touch with the vast majority of their voters. They don’t care, though, which becomes clear when you look at the effort to increase background checks on firearm sales.
Miss. Public Broadcasting: Speculation on Cochran's Future Abounds
Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB have helped make national politics relevant to local Mississippi and other regions’ local NPR member stations, like Mississippi Public Broadcasting, 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.
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Jobs data prompts finger pointing
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WNYC: Bloomberg Makes Case for Another Stimulus Package
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San Diego’s KPBS: San Diego Congressmen contest ethics rules regarding free craft beer
Veteran Washington Correspondent Matt Laslo was early to cover America’s craft beer revolution in recent years, in part by getting to know local San Diego Congressman and their favorite local hopped up brews.
Key Committee approves new mine safety bill in nation’s capital
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Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle juggles two jobs as he runs for Governor
The LCB’s Matt Laslo covered Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle’s run for governor while serving as a congressman in Washington.
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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.