Meet the Team

  • Emmy Award winning producer Jesse Seidman stands in front of an aged stone building in a flannel shirt with a slight smile to smirk on his face

    Jesse Seidman

    4x Emmy Award-Winning Producer

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    LJ Dawson

    EDITOR

    LJ Dawson is a nationally published journalist who covers justice and drugs across the country. She’s an independent journalist and is Editor-in-Chief of The Outlaw Report, a Washington, DC cannabis vertical.

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    Anthony J. Rivera

    CORRESPONDENT / MULTIMEDIA DIRECTOR

    As a Washington Post multimedia editor and feature writer, he created a rich news experience for millions of daily readers. The Post named him a national politics desk fellow exploring voter participation in 2024 and one of the original contributors to the local section’s “Capital Letters” series.

  • Kollen Post looks inquisitive, inviting and like he knows something we don't

    Kollen Post

    CRYPTO & UKRAINE GURU

    Radio Free Europe, Fortune, Breaking Defense, Science Magazine, FT's Sifted, the Cipher Brief and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Active credentials with US Congress and Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. Left Georgetown's School of Foreign Service MA program to come to Ukraine.

  • LCB Correspondent Andrey Beregovskiy

    Andrey Beregovskiy

    CORRESPONDENT / EDITOR

    Andrey Beregovskiy first interned at The LCB after taking a political communications course with founder Matt Laslo at Johns Hopkins University (MA). Since then, he’s been critical in helping Laslo run The LCB and Laslo’s Substack bestseller, www.AskaPolPolitics.com.

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    David Szyszko

    DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER

    Working as a documentary photographer since the 1990s, David has most recently focused on recording everyday life in Ukraine following the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.

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    Arjun Singh

    CORRESPONDENT

    Journalist and political columnist based in Washington, DC. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Epoch Times, National Post and The Daily Caller.

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    Luke De Cresce

    MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST

    Luke De Cresce is a Washington, DC-based journalist who regularly goes viral on TikTok while blowing up YouTube for Raw America. The NYU Journalism (MA) graduate covers culture and politics on Capitol Hill for outlets ranging from LGBTQ+ Nation‍ to ‍The LCB.

The LCB's Pablo Manríquez (also, Vanity Fair, New Republic, etc.) rides tram underneath the U.S. Capitol with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Photo: Matt Laslo

The LCB plays it forward.

Sen. Cory Booker chats up Pablo Manríquez — founder of Migrant Insider and correspondent Vanity Fair, New Republic & The LCB‍ .

LCB alumni — 50+ interns have gone on to: 

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CBS, CNN, Columbus Business First, Columbus Dispatch, Face the Nation, Fox News, Hearst Television, Marketplace, McClatchy, NPR, New York Post, Reuters, Sunlight Foundation, US World & News Report, Virginia Public Radio, Washington Post, WAMU, WCVE (Richmond, Va.), Weekly Standard, WSKG (Binghampton, NY), etc.

  • Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (2!), Headliners Foundation Scholar & the US State Department

LCB abroad

  • The LCB’s proudly sponsored two Ukraine war correspondents, a Canadian editor’s green card, a Russian journalist’s asylum claim & a work visa for an Indian journalist

  • Sponsored permanent residency applications for fmr. Thai (2022), Dutch (2019) & Chinese (2017) interns

Prison to pulpit: Michael J. Moore (published by Prison Journalism Project, HuffPost, The Nation, The News Station, Bloomberg, etc.)

  • Seattle Pacific Seminary (Master of Divinity, 2025)

    • As a former pastor-in-training who’s given sermons — including to juvenile prisoners incarcerated in Chicago’s Audy Home — LCB founder Matt Laslo was a proud reference for Michael’s application

  • Sentence reduction for good (journalism) behavior:

    • After editing and informally mentoring Michael (2020-21), Laslo endorsed Michael’s successful re-sentencing request in a letter to King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg (2021)

Regional, nonprofit & independent journalist hub 

  • The LCB’s founder is passionate about training small, startup & nonprofit news outlets on outsmarting Silicon Valley algorithms in today’s post-social media era

    • Real-time rewiring: Coach reporters, editors & publishers on collaborating wth their traditional, now-former competitors

    • Power in numbers: The LCB’ operates as an informal co-op for a rotating cast of journalists who share sources, videos, edits, interviews, gear, etc. 

  • The LCB’s credentialed and served as an oasis for alumni of: 

    • Associated Press, Business Insider, CBS, NPR, Buzzfeed, CJR, CNN, Daily Beast, Daily Caller, The Guardian, Kaiser Health News, Kyiv Independent, LA Times, Meidas Touch, New York Post, New Republic, Politico, VICE News, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, VICE News Tonight w/ HBO and the Washington Post

  • Since 2006, in his “spare” time, LCB founder Matt Laslo has given 100+ Capitol tours

    • 500+ people total

      • Including 300+ university students

    • 50+ NPR news directors from Hawaii to Maine

    • A handful of Pulitzer Prize winners

    • Dozens of green regional reporters

    • A CNN anchor

    • Reporters from burgeoning nonprofit newsrooms

    • Alt-weekly editors

    • Dozens of producers

    • At least three NPR anchors

    • Also, a slew of traveling bands, visiting Police Officers, a Paris runway model, his physical therapist, a Library of Congress librarian, his Hill bartender and their parents, his childhood pastor and youth pastor, a handful of landscapers, etc.

      • Reach out for a tour if you’re in town: It’s your Capitol, after all

         AI Show n’ Tell — AISNT (est. March 2026)   

  • Monthly artificial intelligence meetup founded and led by The LCB’s founder

  • Real-time AI training for independent journalists (mostly) in Washington, DC

The LCB — or Laslo Congressional Bureau — was founded by veteran congressional correspondent and Johns Hopkins University Lecturer Matt Laslo. Since 2009, Matt’s served on the board of the Regional Reporters Association, where he helps represent the dwindling numbers of local reporters based in Washington.