'Press' gave its name to the printing press and then to journalism itself — from Latin 'premere' (to press).
To exert steady force against something; to squeeze or flatten; to urge earnestly; also (noun) a machine for pressing, a printing press, or the news media collectively.
From Middle English pressen, from Old French presser, from Latin pressare (to press, squeeze), the frequentative of premere (to press, push), from Proto-Italic *premo, ultimately from PIE *per- (to strike, push). The root *per- also gives Sanskrit prn-ati (he fills, he grants) and Old Church Slavonic preti (to press). The unmodified Latin premere entered English as the simplest verb of pressing — no directional prefix, just the pure action. The noun sense "printing
The 'press' meaning 'news media' descends from the printing press, which descends from the wine press. Gutenberg modeled his printing press on the screw presses used for pressing grapes and olives throughout medieval Europe. So when we speak of 'freedom of the press,' we are ultimately invoking a device for making wine — Latin 'premere' flowing from vineyard to newsroom.