Matt Laslo

About Matt Laslo

Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo\'s a veteran journalist, consultant and new media lecturer (55+ guest lectures, keynotes & panels; cited in 100+ law reviews, books & journals).Laslo\'s been a correspondent for WIRED, VICE, Rolling Stone, VICE News Tonight w/ HBO, Daily Beast and Playboy.He runs Washington\'s only regionally-focused national wire service, The LCB, which has brought the Capitol to life for more than 73 million listeners, readers & viewers since 2006. The LCB has delivered individually tailored political reporting to 60+ local NPR stations, five Pulitzer Prize-winning outlets — from This American Life to Mississippi Today — award-winning alt-weeklies, ailing regional newspapers and burgeoning nonprofit newsrooms.Laslo and The LCB’s coverage was highlighted in Raw Story’s winning 2023 EPPY Award & 2024 Folio Award submissions. Besides tech, Laslo regularly breaks cannabis news for Marijuana Moment. In 2023, he founded Substack bestseller Ask a Pol — an interactive political journalism startup aimed at courting the unnewsed (ie, the 90 million Americans who sat the 2024 election out). Since 2016, Laslo\'s been an adjunct political communications professor at Johns Hopkins University (MA), GW (MA) and Boston University (MA, BA). He\'s a leading voice on AI, social media, partisanship and the legacy media. He’s also taught journalism at the University of Maryland (BA).He\'s penned 50+ op-eds — ranging from Big Tech and data privacy warnings to social media and election critiques — for Columbia Journalism Review, Reuters, NBC Think, The Guardian and Nashville\'s SALT Weekly (a bi-monthly arts journal). He’s also penned craft beer and politics op-eds for On Tap Magazine.Laslo\'s generative AI coverage has been cited in 10+ law reviews, including a letter to OpenAI founder Sam Altman from Sen. Elizabeth Warren & Rep. Lori Trahan. His data privacy reporting for WIRED is cited in 20+ law reviews — including Cornell, Duke and Harvard. His tech features are assigned at NYU, UNC Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins and DePaul.He’s covered 40+ mass shootings since 2006. Second Amendment advocates and gun control proponents alike cite Laslo’s firearm reporting, including think tanks and in at least seven law reviews. Fifteen legal journals and books quote Laslo’s \"war on drugs,\" race, criminal justice and opioid coverage. In 2019, Laslo moderated Aspen Ideas Festival’s first cannabis panel ever (the only sold-out panel). He\'s been quoted in FCC filings, PEW Research reports and a Christian Theological Seminary study.

Experience

1. Managing Editor

   The Lcb

   May 2006 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Deliver tailored regional coverage from Washington to 60+ NPR member stations, nonprofit newsrooms, regional newspapers, alt-weeklies, national magazines, etc- Up to 20 clients annually; as many as 15 stories, 30+ exclusive interviews a day - Helped Mississippi Today follow-up on Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of welfare fraud, award-winning Fast Company check Katie Porter rumor & Pulitzer-winning Willamette Week sent LCB to knock on door of (now former…) Oregon First Lady’s sham first husband- Pulitzer-winners This American Life & Latino USA asked The LCB for DC assists- Regularly break cannabis news for Marijuana Moment, Outlaw Report & MJ Biz DailyRaw Story (2020 — PRESENT)- Vendor: LCB provides 50+ exclusive, raw breaking interviews from Capitol weekly - Contributor: Regularly break news; stories picked up from Boston Globe to NBC - 2025 most read story of year: Jim Jordan scrambles as he\'s confronted over Musk \'double standard\'- 2024 Folio Award: “Best public policy news” feature (Fair Media Council)- 2023 EPPY Award: “Best news/political blog” — 2 of 4 winning stories name The LCBTrained 50+ interns (2006 — PRESENT)- LCB alumni: Alaska Public Media, CNN, Fox News, CBS, Columbus Business First, Columbus Dispatch, Face the Nation, Hearst Television, NPR, Marketplace, NBC, New York Post, Reuters, Sunlight Foundation, US World & News Report, Virginia Public Radio, Washington Post, WBEZ, Weekly Standard, WSKG, WGBH, WUSA, etc.SponsorshipsPrison to pulpit: Michael J. Moore - Reference for Seattle Pacific Seminary; Master of Divinity (2025)- Re-sentencing request; King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg (2021)Work visas- Pakistani reporter (2024; frmly. Daily Caller, now Epoch Times) & Canadian editor (2021; frmly. Buzzfeed, now Axios)- Press accreditation: Two war correspondents w/ Ukraine Defense Ministry (2023 — )- Permanent Residency: Sponsored Thai intern (2022)- Asylum request: Fmr. Russian student, intern, news assistant (2020)

Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  MA, Government and Public Policy

  2009 — 2011

• Covenant College

  BA, Philosophy, English

Skills

• Editing
• Politics
• Radio
• Storytelling
• Radio Broadcasting
• Congressional Affairs
• Blogging
• Copy Editing
• Publications
• Magazines
• Ap Style
• Final Cut Pro
• Broadcast Journalism
• Journalism
• Online Journalism
• Web Content
• Television
• Investigative Reporting
• Adobe Audition
• Feature Articles
• New Media
• Newspaper
• Headline Writing
• Multimedia
• Enps
• Editorial
• News Writing
• Broadcast
• Newspapers
• Radio Producing
• Breaking News
• Press Releases
• Digital Media