Today more prevalent events in the television talk show with the theme and nature that is different
events. Talk Show is a blend of art and engineering stage journalistic interview. Talk Show it seems to
still be one of the events most in demand by audiences in Indonesia and for the segments and themes
taken can also vary. Mata Najwa event at Metro TV including one flagship talk show program. Talk
show is one of the works of journalism that discusses the hot issues in which a work of journalism
must fulfill the terms of journalistic work. This study aims to determine the extent of compliance to the
content of the talk show Mata Najwa with the terms of the journalistic work of the period 18 February
to 29 April 2015. The paradigm used in this research is the paradigm of positivism, the approach used
is quantified by the method of content analysis and research which is a descriptive study that
illustrates just do not generalize. Results of this study stated that of the 10 samples of the news, in the
category of terms work jurnalistikterdapat 7 news (70%) that meets the requirements of journalistic
work well, 3 samples (30%) did not meet the requirements of journalistic work well, especially in
Warm problem categories, the actual, unbiased and balanced. 1 among the 3 samples that do not meet
the requirements of journalistic work well is the news that did not meet the category of trust of viewers
because it is considered that given the lack of in-depth information and siding.
Keywords: Talk Show, Media Television, and Journalism