Matt Laslo

At the Capitol, Matt operates The LCB (Laslo Congressional Bureau) — a regionally focused national wire service, which has covered Congress for 65+ local NPR member stations, dozens of nonprofit newsrooms, magazines and five Pulitzer Prize winners (including This American Life!). From 2010-2015, Matt was the political correspondent for WAMU (DC’s NPR station), and his longtime client National Native News continues holding a special place in his heart.

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.

Since 2019, Matt’s been a contributor with WIRED magazine, covering everything from data privacy and crypto to Big Tech and UAPs (aka UFOs).His data privacy coverage 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 assigned at NYU, UNC Chapel Hill, DePaul, UT Austin Law School, et.

He's been a regular contributor with Playboy, VICE News Tonight w HBO, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Daily Beast, etc. His beats include 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 2016, Laslo's been an adjunct political communications professor at Johns Hopkins University (MA), GW (MA) & Boston University (MA, BA). He's become a leading voice on AI, social media, partisanship & the legacy media. He’s also taught journalism at the University of Maryland (BA).