The&Partnership Makes The Wall Street Journal Less 'Male, Pale and Yale'

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“Offbeat” generally isn’t the word that springs to mind when thinking of The Wall Street Journal. But making the Journal less “male, pale and Yale” than its perception among focus groups the agency empaneled is the kind of challenge that Wil Boudreau, CCO, North America, The&Partnership, relishes. “Opportunities are often disguised as problems,” he said. “It’s a problem that there’s no budget, or a brand is uncool. Those are potential pitfalls, but they have opportunities attached to them.”

In addition to more traditional work, The&Partnership created a farm in a shipping container for the Journal’s Future of Everything Festival.

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This story first appeared in the Jan. 7, 2019, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.