The Magnet staff is a delightful circus of quirky personalities. The reporters are always lurking near the drama club or cafeteria, eavesdropping for worthy quotes. Armed with spirals and pens, they treat every minor school event like it’s breaking news. The editors are grammar warriors, fixing comma splices with an intensity usually reserved for escape rooms. They can sniff out a typo from across the room, and nothing makes them happier than a perfectly placed em dash. Then there’s the photographer, forever crouched awkwardly in hallways, trying to capture a “natural” candid while no one notices their giant camera. The layout designers? Well, they’re basically wizards, turning chaos into order with fonts and grids, grumbling about spacing issues only they can see. Together, we form a chaotic newsroom full of deadlines, drama, and just the right amount of caffeine and Frooties.

Josh Walerius is a senior at Owatonna High School. This is Walerius’s first year in Magnet. Walerius decided to join Magnet due to wanting to gain experience in the photography field; and he had an extra study hall he wanted to get out of. Walerius is involved with Yearbook, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and National Honor Society. After high school, Walerius hopes to attend Riverland to gain his associates degree before possibly transferring to university to continue pursuing photography. Walerius recently traveled to Hawaii and hopes to travel to Ibiza in the future. Along with being heavily involved with photography, Walerius likes to listen to Drake. Out of every song by Drake, his favorite came out to be Come Through or Over My Dead Body.