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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.
National Native News: North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe is now 575th federally recognized tribe
The LCB and Matt Laslo have covered Congress, the White House and Supreme Court for National Native News for decades.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: Utah’s Democratic delegates are returning from Chicago’s DNC feeling electric
Salt Lake City’s KUER relies on the regionally-focused national wire service The LCB to cover Washington politics and the local Utah delegation for the award-winning NPR member station.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: ‘We’re tighter as a party’: What Utah’s delegates had to say about the RNC
Matt Laslo and his regionally-focused national wire service The LCB have covered the Utah delegation in Washington, DC and at political conventions across the US for more than a decade.
2020 could be a headache for Congressional members from Philly region
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Colorado Public Radio: When it comes to Colorado’s marijuana industry, Congress’ view is clouded by myth
Veteran marijuana journalist Matt Laslo covered cannabis legalization in Washington for local news outlets nationwide, including Colorado Public Radio.
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.
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
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.
NHPR: NH Congressional delegation reacts to gun control measures
Matt Laslo covered Congress, including gun control, presidential elections, primaries, budget issues and cannabis, and the New Hampshire congressional delegation in Washington for more than a decade.
Boston’s WBUR: Dirt Vs. Synthetic Tracks - What's Best For Horse Racing?
Veteran poilitical journalist and longtime Regional Reporters Association board member Matt Laslo escapes the Washington Beltway by reporting on sports, from horse racing to NHL and NFL games
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
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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.