Wayne Darwen

{{Short description|Australian journalist and television producer}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}}

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Wayne Darwen is an Australian journalist, television producer and filmmaker best known for his work in the tabloid television genre{{Cite web |last=Dunleavy |first=Steve |date=1999-11-14 |title=NY Post: My Fondest 'Affair': When We Were Tabloid-TV Kings |url=http://tabloidbaby.blogspot.com/1999/11/ny-post-my-fondest-affair-when-we-were_14.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208171334/http://tabloidbaby.blogspot.com/1999/11/ny-post-my-fondest-affair-when-we-were_14.html |archive-date=2015-12-08 |access-date=2014-08-20 |website=tabloid baby}} and as director and star of the film, High There (2015).{{Cite news |last=Arriaga |first=Indra |date=2015-05-28 |title=High There |work=Anchorage Press |url=https://www.anchoragepress.com/film/high-there/ |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210002630/http://www.anchoragepress.com/film/high-there |archive-date=2016-02-10}}

Began career as a 17-year-old reporter for a newspaper in Sydney, Australia. He worked internationally as a reporter for titles such as Sydney Daily Mirror, Star magazine and the New York Post, before moving to American television as a producer of tabloid newsmagazine shows like A Current Affair, Hard Copy, Geraldo Rivera’s Now It Can be Told,{{Cite web |title=Now It Can Be Told |url=http://www.hollywood.com/tv/55070352/now-it-can-be-told?page=219 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911220722/http://www.hollywood.com/tv/55070352/now-it-can-be-told?page=219 |archive-date=2014-09-11 |access-date=2014-09-11 |website=Hollywood.com}} Strange Universe and Inside Edition.{{Cite news |last=DiGiacomo |first=Frank |date=1999-06-12 |title=Steve Dunleavy and the Rise of Tabloid TV |work=New York Observer |url=http://observer.com/1999/12/steve-dunleavy-and-the-rise-of-tabloid-tv/ |url-status=live |access-date=2014-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120110/http://observer.com/1999/12/steve-dunleavy-and-the-rise-of-tabloid-tv/ |archive-date=2014-08-26}}

He received attention for his 1993 series of televised interviews with Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz,{{Cite magazine |last1=Mitchell |first1=Deborah |last2=Landman |first2=Beth |date=1999-07-12 |title=Morton's Not Solow On This Deal |url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/1115/ |magazine=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912045942/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/1115/ |archive-date=2014-09-12 |access-date=2014-09-11}} in which Berkowitz claimed the murders were the work of a Satanic cult.{{Cite news |date=1993-11-13 |title=Ex-cop doesn't believe Son of Sam's cult tale |page=2B |work=The Gainesville Sun |agency=The Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19931113&id=_Xw1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=XOoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4332,4378381 |access-date=2014-09-11 |via=Google News}} He appeared as reporter in the documentary film, Dark Mirror of Magick: The Vassago Millennium Prophecy (2012).[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqP00mgUFvY YouTube]

His early television exploits were featured in the 1999 book Tabloid Baby,{{Cite news |last=Elder |first=Sean |date=1999-12-08 |title=Tabloid Nation |work=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/1999/12/08/tabloid/ |url-status=live |access-date=2014-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821090409/http://www.salon.com/1999/12/08/tabloid/ |archive-date=2014-08-21}} written by his colleague Burt Kearns.

In May 2015, Darwen made international news when he responded to Downey's attack on journalists{{Cite news |last=Goodman |first=Jessica |date=2015-04-22 |title=Robert Downey Jr. Walks Out Of Interview After Being Asked About 'Dark Periods' |work=Huffington Post |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/22/robert-downey-jr-walks-out-interview_n_7120716.html |url-status=live |access-date=2015-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425013522/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/22/robert-downey-jr-walks-out-interview_n_7120716.html |archive-date=2015-04-25}} and independent films.{{Cite news |date=2015-05-01 |title=Robert Downey Jr: independent movies are 'exhausting and sometimes suck' |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/01/robert-downey-jr-indie-movies-exhausting-and-sometimes-suck |url-status=live |access-date=2015-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604130847/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/01/robert-downey-jr-indie-movies-exhausting-and-sometimes-suck |archive-date=2015-06-04}}