• The Boston Globe, Friday, May 18, 2007 11:16 AM

The thinking at ESPN must be: just keep churning out new programming. Among its more ambitious new projects for next season is "ESPN Reports," an hourlong news magazine that will air for four weeks at various periods of the year with a format much like CBS' "60 Minutes" and HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."

Says David Berson, ESPN's executive vice president of programming, planning and development: "This will be a sports news magazine with high-quality journalism, investigative journalism, good storytelling, a lot of behind-the scenes footage. We anticipate it being very fast-paced and young-skewing. A lot of news magazines are slower and skew older.

"Contributors will include Jeremy Schaap, Lisa Salters, Tom Farrey and former Boston Globe reporter Michael Smith. ESPN will also debut the Moto X World Championships, a "SportsCenter minute" during ABC programming, and "This is SportsCenter 300," a series of specials.

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