Summary

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Pittsburg State University
Member, Kling Family Orchards

My interests currently lie in business media and analysis (specifically the retail, consumer goods, and food/beverage industries), framed through experience in higher education, sports media, retail, and journalism.

In addition to teaching at Pittsburg State, Trent is the co-host and producer of the Retail Focus Podcast series, which cultivates weekly national business news podcasts in the retail, food, and beverage industries. Both the Retail Focus Podcast and Food Focus Podcast are globally distributed via a number of channels, including iTunes. His work with Retail Focus earned him the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Creative Activity Award in 2016-17.

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Information

Web: Pitt State webpage Retail Focus Podcast YouTube LinkedIn Kling Family Orchards

Email: tkling@pittstate.edu
Phone: 620-235-4718
Address: 123 Whitesitt Hall
1701 South Broadway Street
Pittsburg, KS 66762

Biosketch

Trent Kling was first appointed as an assistant professor in the PSU Department of Communication in 2012 before his promotion to associate professor prior to the 2017-18 school year. Trent has worked in radio, television, and media/public relations in one form or another since 2004, when he got his first job as a news assistant at KNSS Radio in his native Wichita, Kansas. He worked as the Media Relations and Broadcasting Director for the Amarillo Gorillas (Central Hockey League) and Amarillo Dusters (arenafootball2) in Texas before moving back to Pittsburg to pursue his Master of Arts in Communication in 2009. As a graduate student, Trent earned his Master of Arts in Communication in 2010, completing his thesis on early Kansas media and its coverage of locally important events.

He continues to work in media as on-air talent for various sports and specialty broadcasts at MyTown Media, a regional radio group headquartered in Kansas. His work in sports play-by-play earned accolades at the 2016 Broadcast Educator’s Association Festival of Media Arts, where he was awarded Best of Competition for Sports Radio in the faculty competition.

Trent is a member at Kling Family Orchards LLC, which oversees retail operations of Root Coffeehouse and value-added goods creation. He served on the Board of Directors of the Pittsburg Farmers’ Market from 2012 to 2015 and hosted a bi-weekly cooking show on KOAM-TV during that same time. In addition to broadcasting, he takes great interest in retail, Kansas history, horticulture, sports, and culinary arts. Trent is a two-time recipient of the “seniors’ choice” award for Outstanding Teacher in Communication (2013, 2017).

Eduation

M.A. Communication
Pittsburg State University
Kansas, U.S.A., 2010

B. S. Communication
Pittsburg State University
Kansas, U.S.A., 2007

Teaching

Broadcast Communication in Audio and Video

Trent Kling

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Lynzee Flores

Interests: Political Communication International Communication

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Zika 2016: A 3-phase longitudinal study

Co-author:
Alicia Mason, Pittsburg State University

Using the Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM) as a theoretical framework, the present 3- phase longitudinal study examines the impact of media exposure to Zika information on public perception of the threat severity, personal susceptibility, and behavioral intentions toward the threat of Zika virus between May and November of 2016.

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Messages for promoting Zika-related preventative health behaviors

Co-authors:
Chelsea Foster, Pittsburg State University
Alicia Mason, Pittsburg State University

More than 200 participants were randomized into an online study hosted through the PSU Communication Research Lab using Qualtrics software for data collection. Amazon’s M(Turk) and TurkPrime were utilized for participant recruitment in November 2016. This presentation will report the findings of this study and discuss the implications for dissemination and implementation efforts relevant to future persuasive risk communication appeals and health communication campaign design.

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Sustainability approach to patient centered health care delivery

Co-authors:
Catherine Hooey, Pittsburg State University
James Triplett, Pittsburg State University

The goals of this paper are (1) to provide an overview of sustainability-enhanced approaches to patient-centered health care (2) to examine health communication in the sustainability context through multiple forms, channels and messages, and (3) to provide professional resources for increasing capacity building between patients, health care providers and the communities they serve. and promotion of health services, (c) engagement and community outreach, and (d) health care policies that contribute to the long term co-benefits of sustainable health care systems.

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Alicia Mason

Hub Tags: Health Communication Hub | Medical Tourism Hub

Interests: risk/crisis communication spans organizational/business, public health, and environmental contexts

Dr. Mason is a former broadcaster, who worked with local media outlets KOAM and KKOW in SE Kansas, prior to receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

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