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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.
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.
2023 EPPY Award winner: 0-for-1,523 — US Senators attempt to explain…ethics violations
LCB founder Matt Laslo helped turn Raw Story into an award-winning news outlet within a year of covering Washington politics for the new media digital news outlet.
Raw Story: Exclusive: All 50 Senate Republicans weigh in on Jan. 6 hearings – only 8 are watching
The LCB’s Matt Laslo regularly breaks news for award-winning client Raw Story, including when Laslo doggedly chased down half of the United States Senate in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Laslo’s office since 2006.
Miami’s WLRN: Why Some South Florida Lawmakers Remain Opposed To Normalized Relations With Cuba
Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB have covered Washington politics and crazy Florida politicians and politics for Miami NPR member station WLRN
Washington, DC’s WAMU: Local lawmakers make plea to combat opioid abuse
Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo is an award-winning reporter who has covered Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court since 2006. While he’s filed stories for NPR and more than 40 of its affiliates, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Omaha World-Herald, and Washingtonian.
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.
Arizona Public Radio, KNAU: McCain, Campaign Finance and Super Pacs
Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo has been covering Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court since 2006. While he has filed stories for more than 50 local NPR stations, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, National Public Radio, The Omaha World-Herald, Pacifica Radio, Politics Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine.
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Jobs data prompts finger pointing
Stylized “C” from Chattanooga Times Free Press, who LCB founder Matt Laslo covered Congress for when he first arrived in Washington ages ago.
WNYC: Bloomberg Makes Case for Another Stimulus Package
Vintage WNYC logo of New York City syline from 1970s
Charlotte’s WFAE: Challenging the Congressional Black Caucus
The LCB’s founder Matt Laslo has covered racism in American politics since arriving in Washington in 2006 for outlets ranging from Rolling Stone to Charlotte’s NPR station, WFAE.
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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.