Based on Capitol Hill, veteran journalist Matt Laslo's a popular public speaker, in-demand media consultant and forward-thinking 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, The Daily Beast and Playboy magazine.

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 LifetoMississippi 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 (previously for MJ Biz Daily, Outlaw Report and WikiLeaf).

In 2023, he became a Substack bestseller after founding Ask a Pol— an interactive political journalism news outlet.

Laslo’s gaining the trust of millions of unnewsed Americans — ie, the roughly 90 million Americans who didn’t vote in the 2024 election — through covering the topics other legacy media outlets don’t, like crypto (corruption, capitalism and conspiracies), drugs (from marijuana to mushrooms, AI and UAP (drones, de-classification efforts, the military industrial complex, state secrets, etc.).

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.

Since 2006, he’s covered 40+ mass shootings. Second Amendment advocates and gun control think tanks alike cite Laslo’s firearm reporting, as well as at least seven law reviews. 

Laslo moderated the Aspen Ideas Festival’s historic first cannabis panel, which also happened to be the fest’s only sold-out session in 2019. At least 15 legal scholars and book authors quote Laslo’s tireless coverage of the "war on drugs (“are you gonna ask me about pot?” Secretary of State Marco Rubio used to nervously quip to Laslo back when he was in the Senate), race, criminal justice and opioid epidemic. 

Laslo’s been quoted in FCC filings, PEW Research reports, a Christian Theological Seminary study and testimony submitted to the Select Jan. 6, 2021 Committee. 

Merriam-Webster quotes Laslo’s magazine features in at least 7 entries, including the definition of “partisan” (as well as “accurately” and “in due time,” etc.).  

Laslo cited as a trusted, unbiased source for at least 20 Wikipedia entries on a diverse array of topics — from bios of Republicans like “Liz Cheney” to the “2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries,” as well as entries explaining divisive topics like “gun violence.” Same for when bipartisanship comes up, like in Wiki’s “Problem Solvers Caucus” explainer or their entry on the historic classified, all-Senate “A.I. Insight forums” held throughout the 118th Congress (2023-’24). 

Just as he’s advised dozens of newsroom leaders on social media, Laslo’s now training award-winning journalists, producers and editors — like his 2024 lecture at NPR HQ, “Make Politics Boring (Again): Outfoxing AI, deepfakes & the nationalization of local politics” — on how to aggressively, if delicately, adapt in the generative artificial intelligence era. With AI chatbots having replaced Google search as the life — or death… — line for news outlets, he’s become a leading expert warning newsrooms to adapt to the new digital language of GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — which is the new SEO.

Laslo’s also helped dozens of journalists transform themselves into established independent journalists and trusted new media outlets on self-publishing platforms like Substack and Patreon. Whether it’s branding, LLC formation, health insurance, newsletter tips or social media tricks, Laslo stands out as a practical media consultant who puts the public before profit.

Over the years, Laslo’s proudly trained 50+ interns who have gone on to the likes of Atlanta-Journal and Constitution, Alaska Public Media, Virginia Public Radio, WGBH (Boston NPR), WBEZ (Chicago NPR), Columbus Business First, Columbus Dispatch, Cox Media, Hearst Television, CNN, Fox News, CBS, Washington Post, New York Post, NPR, Marketplace, Vermont Public Radio, Sunlight Foundation, WSKG (Binghamton, NY NPR), WUSA-TV (DC), Reuters, Columbia Journalism School, etc.

He can be found on most all social media platforms as @MattLaslo.

Laslo’s also reported forThe Atlantic, Billboard, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, The Chattanooga Courier, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, Fast Company, GEN Medium, The Guardian (op-ed under professor cap), The Metro(Philadelphia edition), MJ Biz Journal, NBC Think (non-partisan opinion vertical), Newsweek, The News of Delaware County, The Omaha World-Herald, Outlaw Report, OZY.com, The Trace, This American Life, Thompson Reuters (op-eds) and Washingtonian Magazine, etc.   

He’s also the creator of Bills & Brews. — a craft beer and politics show that hit its $36,000 goal on Kickstarter back in 2012.