Matt Laslo

Matt Laslo has covered Capitol Hill and federal policy continuously since 2006. From 2010 to 2015 he was the political correspondent for WAMU, the NPR member station serving Washington DC. He has filed reporting for NPR and more than forty NPR affiliate stations across the country, including WHYY in Philadelphia, WLRN in Miami, Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, and Wyoming Public Radio. He was a correspondent at the Emmy-winning VICE News Tonight on HBO and remains a contributor to VICE News, WIRED, The Daily Beast, and Playboy.

He runs The LCB, the only regionally-focused national wire service for Washington reporting, which has delivered tailored congressional coverage to more than seventy-three million listeners, readers, and viewers across sixty-plus local NPR stations and five Pulitzer Prize-winning outlets since 2006. He holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University's Government programme (cum laude, 2011) and has taught at Boston University, the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and George Washington University.

Laslo is the founder of Ask a Pol, a Substack-based interactive journalism outlet specialising in hallway interviews with members of Congress on topics legacy media under-covers. The dedicated UAP feed, Ask a Pol UAPs, has become the single most consistent source of raw, on-the-record congressional reactions to closed UAP briefings.

Laslo's UAP work is structurally different from the work of other journalists in the field. He is in the Capitol corridors continuously and asks the same UAP question of as many members of Congress and congressional staff as will answer him. The cumulative effect is a documentary record of how the topic moves through the legislature in real time, including the moments where it stops moving and why.

His coverage spans the immediate post-Grusch period in mid-2023, the gutting of the UAP Disclosure Act amendment in late 2023, the November 2024 House Oversight hearing, the November 2024 SASC hearing, ongoing AARO oversight, and the January 2026 reset under the Trump administration's PURSUE document-release programme.

Among his most-cited pieces is the 2023 confrontation with Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker on the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act amendment, in which Wicker laughed off the question and stated "I've ceased doing interviews in the hallway" before entering a Senators-only elevator. The piece reads as a documentary of disclosure being closed down in real time.