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The LCB is Washington, DC’s only digital and broadcast-first wire service. We use new media to serve as a bridge between the powerful Beltway elites we cover and our award-winning clients’ newsrooms servicing tens of millions of listeners, viewers and readers. Besides, providing relevant and in-depth breaking news, The LCB strategizes, assists and coordinates new media strategies, so our partner newsrooms generate the digital buzz required for news outlets to not just surviuve, but thrive in today’s impromptu AI-era. Our wire service’s goal is to blow up the internet for understaffed newsrooms nationwide. We partner with regional, national and specialty newsrooms to deliver original reporting, exclusive interviews and localized policy coverage.

Founded by veteran journalist and new media Lecturer Matt Laslo, who has covered Congress for more than 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.

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In Spite of Defeat, AOC Says Vote on Her Psychedelic Bill “a leap” Forward

In Spite of Defeat, AOC Says Vote on Her Psychedelic Bill “a leap” Forward: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw her amendment promoting research into an array of drugs defeated for the second time this week, but she’s elated because math is done differently in Washington. Matt Laslo exclusive feature.

AOC Upset Sens. Cornyn & Cruz Open to Rick Perry’s Call for Shroom Research, Not Hers

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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.