Fresh out of journalism school, E.J. Lockhart takes a job at the prestigious San Francisco Press-Journal during the height of the dotcom boom in 2000, only to learn that what he thought was the opportunity of a lifetime was really artful deception.

Is E.J. cunning enough to become the most annoying man in the industry?

Pressed is a comically transgressive look at an imploding industry headed toward antiquity in a burgeoning digital age, and a man who refuses to be another victim of self-serving management in a rapidly decaying corner of corporate America.