In addition to being one of the Midwest's most quoted political analysts, Bruce DuMont is a civic leader.  He is the Founder and President of The Museum of Broadcast Communications, one of only two broadcast museums in the United States. The Museum includes America's only Radio Hall of Fame, which DuMont brought to Chicago in 1991.

DuMont began his talk radio career as the original producer of WGN/Chicago's Extension 720 in 1968. After an unsuccessful run for the state legislature, he returned to WGN in 1970 as producer of The Howard Miller Show, one of Chicago's most controversial radio programs.  He has had an extensive radio and television career and Chicago and the Mid-West.

In 1994, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from his alma mater, Columbia College/Chicago. He was also recognized in 1989 by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of Chicago's most influential television leaders of the 1980s.

DuMont is past Chairman of the Board of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia. In addition, he serves on the National Advisory Board for Northwestern University's School of Speech and on the Executive Committee of the Harris School Council on Public Policy at the University of Chicago.