Linn Parish, who has been deputy editor of the Journal of Business for the last 6 1/2 years, will take over as editor at the beginning of September, succeeding Kim Crompton, who is retiring after nearly 30 years at the Journal.

Parish, 46, a veteran Spokane journalist who also worked as a staff reporter at the Journal from 1998 to 2006, rejoined the newspaper as deputy editor at the beginning of 2011, when Crompton became editor. Crompton replaced Richard Ripley, who had guided the Journal’s editorial department since 1995.

The Journal is seeking applicants for the deputy editor position.

“Our newspaper owes Kim a substantial debt of gratitude for all he has done to make the Journal a success and the community a better place. His professionalism and integrity has helped shape our news coverage for nearly three decades, and we will miss his leadership,” says Paul Read, the Journal’s publisher. “The Journal, however, will be in good hands as Linn Parish moves into the editor’s role in September, and I am very confident in the direction Linn will take the Journal’s coverage in the future.”

Parish is a 1995 University of Montana graduate who worked for newspapers in Idaho for three years before joining the Journal. He left in late 2006 to become managing editor of a media company here at which he oversaw all editorial operations for two monthly magazines, Inland Business Catalyst and Prime.

He left that post in January 2009 and started a company named Parish Media LLC, through which he provided writing and editing services to businesses and publications in the Northwest.

Crompton, 64, whose last day at the Journal will be Friday, Sept. 1, has been a journalist for 43 years. He joined the Journal as a reporter in 1989 and then was promoted to news editor in 1995 before taking over as editor at the beginning of 2011.

He came to the Journal after a decade of reporting at The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Daily Chronicle. A University of Idaho graduate, he grew up in a newspaper family in southern Idaho and managed several family-owned newspapers. He also worked for the Post-Register daily newspaper in Idaho Falls, Idaho, early in his career.