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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.
GOP Congressman Says Marijuana Rescheduling Should Expand To ‘Across-The-Board’ Review Of Psychedelics And Other Drugs
GOP Congressman Says Marijuana Rescheduling Should Expand To ‘Across-The-Board’ Review Of Psychedelics And Other Drugs, from Marijuana Moment with reporting from Washington by Matt Laslo and his regionally focused wire service, The LCB. Exclusive feature photo by Lizzy Oakley Photography.
Sens. Warren & Markey Oppose Massachusetts Ballot Measure To Roll Back Marijuana Legalization
Massachusetts' two U.S. Senators oppose a ballot measure coming before the state's voters in November that seeks to roll back the state’s marijuana legalization law. In interviews with The LCB, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) tell Marijuana Moment they will be voting against the anti-cannabis measure.
Marijuana Is A ‘Gateway Drug,’ GOP Congressional Majority Leader Says As Trump Moves To Ease Federal Restrictions
The LCB provided exclusive interviews from the US Capitol to Marijuana Moment for this story, “Marijuana Is A ‘Gateway Drug,’ GOP Congressional Majority Leader Says As Trump Moves To Ease Federal Restrictions.”
The Democratic Resistance to Marijuana
The Democratic Resistance to Marijuana. GOP leaders continue to disregard marijuana’s popularity with their voters, but that doesn’t mean Democrats have successfully laid claim to one of the most broadly popular issues in today’s hyper, hyper-partisan political arena.
Chameleons in Our Midst: The Evolution of America’s Anti-Marijuana Lobby
Chameleons in Our Midst: The Evolution of America’s Anti-Marijuana Lobby. Smart Approaches to Marijuana, or SAM, lost the war against legalization. Now, the anti-pot group is devoting its vast resources and energy to a new front in the fight: capping the levels of THC in marijuana products. By Alex Thomas and Matt Laslo
How Post-Capitol Riot Politics Derailed a Bi-Partisan Opioid Bill
Opioid politics have always been bad but only gor worse after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol as Rep. Madeleine Dean and her son Harry Cunnane exclusively recount to Matt Laslo.
No One Knows Where President Biden is on Marijuana
President Joe Biden despised marijuana despite promissing medicinal benefits
Gov. Ricketts isn’t Alone in Spreading Marijuana Myths – Here are Some Facts
Marijuana’s More Popular than Politicians
AOC and Matt Gaetz Allies in New Front in War on Marijuana
Cannabis. By Lizzy Oakley Photography
AOC and Pressley Say Dem Leaders Caved to McConnell on Marijuana Vote
Progressive “Squad” members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley accuse Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team of merely playing into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hands on drug and marijuana policy
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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.