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.

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 65+ local NPR member stations, two Pulitzer Prize winning regional news outlets, alt-weeklies, two Pulitzer Prize winning national outlets and nonprofit newsroomss.

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

In 2023, Matt also founded Ask a Pol — a new, people-powered press corps. Subscribers — now an active community of thousands — send in their questions, and then get to hear Matt and his team ask their questions to their elected leaders on Capitol Hill.

Since 2019, Matt’s been a WIRED magazine contributor, covering everything from data privacy and crypto to Big Tech and UAPs (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 the 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 the same year the university received a $1 billion gift for its public health school). Matt’s also taught political comms at Boston University (BA & MA), journalism at the University of Maryland (BA) and strategic public relations at George Washington University (MA) in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Matt’s also known for training 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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