https://merrill.umd.edu/articles/dr-ray-hiebert-founding-dean-merrill-college-passes-away-age-91

It includes a short video and a 1969 photo of him and Connie Chung.

First paragraphs (it's pretty long):

Dr. Ray Eldon Hiebert, founding dean of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and an expert on international communication, died Aug. 5 in Carmel, California. He was 91.

The University of Maryland recruited him in 1968 to revamp its journalism department. Four years later, the program was elevated to college status and Hiebert became its first dean. In the following years as a professor, he concentrated on working with graduate students and served as chair or committee member of dozens of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. He continued as dean until 1980. He remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1998 and taught another 10 years on a part-time basis. He was inducted into the Merrill College Hall of Fame in 2023.

"Ray was critical to getting Merrill College to where it is today, and he remained involved, interested and passionate about its mission throughout his life," Merrill College Dean Rafael Lorente said. "I remember Ray as someone who cared deeply about teaching and positioning graduate students to be the journalism educators of the future."

Dr. Ray Hiebert, left, helps to present a Public Relations Society of America award to then-Merrill College student Connie Chung, center, in 1969.
Born in Freeman, South Dakota, on May 21, 1932, he was brought to California as an infant by his parents, Peter Hiebert and Helen Kunkel, who made the long trip in a Chrysler sedan with Ray and five siblings (a sixth arrived a few years later). His father, a college professor, had lost his job because of the Dust Bowl. The family settled in Bakersfield, and later moved to Los Angeles, where Ray Hiebert went to high school. He was class president at Culter Academy (now Linfield Christian School), where he was editor of Culter’s literary magazine and lettered in four sports. Tennis became a lifelong love.

His career in journalism began with a paper route at age 10, delivering The Bakersfield Californian and the Los Angeles Times. It nearly ended on a nice Saturday when he attended a picnic and skipped his deliveries. Annoyed customers called the circulation manager and Hiebert was fired.

He again got a job delivering the Los Angeles Times that lasted until he went to college. He covered high school sports for the Los Angeles Examiner, gaining experience that later would pay off professionally. His sports editor at the Examiner, Ira Walsh, offered him a full-time sports reporting job when he graduated from high school. But on his parents’ advice, Hiebert turned down the offer to go to college, causing Walsh to give him a profanity-laced lecture on how a college education would ruin him as a journalist. Walsh later became head of the Hearst Foundation’s college journalism scholarship program and named Hiebert to the foundation’s board of advisors...

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https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-ray-hiebert-20230813-p2apob7i2fgfxhuazdxntyxfku-story.html

https://www.thesentinel.com/communities/ray-hiebert-a-giant-in-journalism-education/article_9242f074-3b81-11ee-949d-e32b665b5db7.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvd3dU-E_0
(Memorial Eucharist - 90 minutes)

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=566121062&rlz=1CAJMBU_enUS1075&q=ray+hiebert&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR3euEvbKBAxV_j4kEHQqUDroQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=911&bih=429&dpr=1.5
(a few more videos)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/roselyn-and-ray-eldon-hiebert-hiebert/thomas-edison-american-inventor/
(one Kirkus review of a juvenile Edison biography)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1032526.Ray_Eldon_Hiebert
(reader reviews)

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Ray-Hiebert/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ARay+Hiebert
(some book titles, about mass media, FDR, the stock market, and atomic pioneers)

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=ray+eldon+hiebert&sortby=7&pt=book&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-ptbook
(more titles, roughly in alphabetical order)