Entrepreneurial Journo Proposes Performance Pay Plan

Bill Freehling, a business reporter at the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, started producing a daily business e-newsletter last month, on top of his regular reporting duties.

He’s not getting paid extra for ‘Fredericksburg Business Insider,’ and indeed he “didn’t ask for or want any salary increase for the additional workload.”

What Freehling proposed to bosses was that he get a cut of any ad revenue the newsletter brings in.

“I just wanted to benefit off any new revenue that my hard work was bringing the company,” he told

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