Hope ahead: St. Jude kicks off Marathon Weekend in Downtown Memphis
Paul Barlow speaks during the press conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, before Saturday’s St. Jude Marathon. On stage to his right is a portrait of his son, David, a former St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patient. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Runners await the start of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Dec. 2, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis will host 22,500 participants, including a record 1,800 patient family members, for this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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