<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Doug Cummings is a<span style="font-family: inherit;"> resident of Highland Park, where the shooting tragedy happened on July 4th at the Independence Day parade. He wrote the personal safety handbook, <a href="https://www.escapingtheo-zone.com/" target="_blank">Escaping the O-Zone</a>, to help people take steps to keep themselves safe and </span>preventing becoming a victim<span style="font-family: inherit;">. <span style="font-family: inherit;">All </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">proceeds go to the <a href="https://www.hpcfil.org/" target="_blank">Highland Park Community Foundation</a>. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He talks about his reporting career, which <span style="font-family: inherit;">started in Kansas at WIBW; why starting at a small station is helpful for a media career and education; working in Kansas City at KCMO; graduating from the Public Affairs Reporting Program at University of Illinois/Springfield; doing legislative reporting for WTMX in Chicago, then street reporting at WMAQ and WGN; talking to victims of fires, crime, shootings, family murders and how they wanted control back; being the director of security at a church; the Highland Park shooting, which </span>was “absolute devastation”<span style="font-family: inherit;">; security consulting; why he got back into the media and why he liked reporting; approaching victims after a tragedy; reporters' PTSD and why they should get help if they report on serious stories; why he left the media to go into security, the risks of owning a gun,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> and more.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Listen to the first interview I did with Doug <a href="https://podcast.radiogirl.us/2013/10/doug-cummings-from-crime-reporter-to.html" target="_blank">10 years ago here.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is from a livestream that we did; </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsxcAHfDcrk" style="background-color: white; color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">watch the full interview here.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Click the link below to play, or download it by right-clicking (on a PC) or holding down the CTRL key and clicking on it (for Mac).</span><span> </span></span></p><p><a href="http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG191.mp3" style="background-color: white; color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG191.mp3</span></a></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5199054815393967338" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><div><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch the Radiogirl livestreams and videos at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/radiogirlpodcast" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Radiogirl FB page</a> and on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MargaretLarkin/videos" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">YouTube</a> (also live-streaming on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/radiogirlpod" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Radiogirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/metrolingua" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Metrolingua Twitter</a>, and my own Fakebook page).</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you like what I'm doing, <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/metrolingua" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Buy Me a Coffee</a>...thanks!</span></i></div></div>
