Epic Magazine signs first-look deal with 20th Century Fox

When journalists Joshuah Bearman and Joshua Davis launched Epic Magazine a week ago, they did so with the hope of creating a new business model for journalism. The goal of Epic is to fund long-form, in-depth articles that are published online for free by selling the film rights to those stories to movie studios. The approach, Davis said last week, is experimental. On Monday, a bit of evidence arrived that could eventually turn Davis and Bearman's experiment into a success -- according to Deadlin...