Ken De Witt is editorial technology director for The Wall Street Journal editorial page. He oversees the daily production of the editorial, op-ed and Leisure & Arts pages and also manages new technology initiatives, including producing the foreign editorial pages from New York. He represents the editorial page on interdepartmental production and technology projects and works on the edit page's book projects and electronic publishing ventures.

Mr. De Witt joined the Journal in 1971 as a copyreader in Chicopee, Mass. In 1972 he transferred to New York to work on the monitor desk. He moved to page one in 1973 and was among the staff that inaugurated the Journal's "second front" in 1980. He became production manager for the editorial page in 1984, and in the early 1990s he supervised the pagination of the editorial pages, the first Journal pages to be produced electronically in New York. During 1999 and early 2000, he worked full-time on the team that launched Hermes, the Journal's new editorial and production system. He was named to his current position in May 2000.

Born in Amsterdam, N.Y., Mr. De Witt attended Alliance College and received a bachelor's degree in psychology from American International College. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force.

Mr. DeWitt and his wife, Linda Boswell De Witt, have four children: Amy, Jack, Molly and Rebecca. They live in Parsippany, N.J.