Matt Laslo’s a veteran congressional correspondent, professor, writer, media consultant and in-demand public speaker. Based in Washington, DC he’s been covering campaigns and every aspect of federal policy since 2006.

In 2023, Matt founded Ask a Pol (ask a politician was taken…) — a best-selling interactive political news startup news outlet where he takes subscribers’ questions directly to elected officials in Washington.

At the Capitol, Matt operates The LCB — Laslo Congressional Bureau — a regionally-focused, national wire service that brings the Capitol to life for millions. The LCB has served 60+ local NPR member stations, two Pulitzer Prize-winning regional print outlets, award-winning alt-weeklies, three Pulitzer-winning national public radio entities, including This American Life, and new nonprofit newsrooms popping up nationwide.

The LCB contributed to two of Raw Story’s four award-winning submissions, netting the growing outlet the 2023 Editor and Publisher Magazine EPPY Award for ‘best news/political blog’

From 2010-2015, Matt was the political correspondent for WAMU (DC’s NPR station). His longtime client National Native News continues to hold a special place in his heart.

Since 2019, Matt’s been a WIRED magazine contributor, covering everything from data privacy and artificial intelligence — namely, generative AI — to crypto and even UAP (aka UFOs).

Matt’s data privacy coverage for WIRED has been quoted in 20+ law reviews, including the Duke Law and Technology Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, University of Illinois Chicago Law Review, etc. His Section 230 work is also quoted in FCC filings and books — like Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2022) or Internet Law (Grey House Publishing, 2020). It’s also been assigned at NYU, UNC Chapel Hill, DePaul, UT Austin Law School, etc.

Over the years, Matt’s also been a regular contributor with VICE News, VICE News Tonight (HBO), Rolling Stone, Raw Story, The Daily Beast and Playboy, etc. His beats have included marijuana (including moderating Aspen Ideas Festival’s first-ever cannabis panel), coal, climate, oil and gas, Indian Country, gun violence, health care, mass incarceration, opioid crisis, horse racing, the intersection of music & politics, etc.

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.

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In 2011, Matt graduated cum laude from Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Government program — where he taught political communications for nine years (until JHU stripped him of his health care in 2024 without warning, which happened to be the same year the University received a $1 billion gift for its public health school). Matt’s also taught political communications at Boston University (BA & MA), journalism at the award-winning University of Maryland (BA) program and strategic public relations at George Washington University (MA).

Matt’s also known for training award-winning independent journalists — from branding to their on-air delivery — serving as a media consultant in the cutthroat world of contemporary journalism.

Over the years, Matt’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.

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

Matt’s also the creator and host of Bills & Brews.

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