{"id":3223,"date":"2026-03-20T20:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/disneys-erin-barrier-promoted-to-senior-vice-president-of-communications-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:44:52","slug":"disneys-erin-barrier-promoted-to-senior-vice-president-of-communications-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/disneys-erin-barrier-promoted-to-senior-vice-president-of-communications-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s Erin Barrier Promoted to Senior Vice President of Communications &#8211; The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter<br \/>Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter<br \/>She will lead communications efforst across the company&#8217;s production banners, including Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios.<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy  <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/author\/aaron-couch\/\" \t\t\t> \tAaron Couch<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/>Film Editor<br \/> \t<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/disney-2\/\"  id=\"auto-tag_disney-2_1\"  data-tag=\"disney-2\"  >Disney<\/a> veteran <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/erin-barrier\/\"  id=\"auto-tag_erin-barrier_1\"  data-tag=\"erin-barrier\"  >Erin Barrier<\/a> is moving up at the company, where she has been named senior vice president of communications for The Walt Disney Studios.<br \/> \tIn her new role, Barrier will oversee global communications strategy across the company&#8217;s sprawling production banners. That includes Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures; Disney Theatrical Group; and Disney Music Group.  <br \/> \tThe well-liked executive  steps into the role previously held by Paul Roeder, whom new Disney CEO Josh D&#8217;Amaro <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/new-disney-chief-communications-officer-paul-roeder-1236528825\/\"  >elevated earlier this month<\/a> to be the company&#8217;s communications chief.  \t<\/p>\n<div class=\"admz\" id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\">\n<div class=\"adma boomerang\" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"300\">\n<div style=\"min-width:50px;min-height:75px;\" \tclass=\"pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text\" \tdata-priority=\"10\" >\n<div id=\"gpt-article-mid-article-uid0\" \t\tclass=\"adw-300 adh-250\" data-is-adhesion-ad=\"\"> \t\t<script type=\"application\/javascript\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tblogherads.adq.push(function () {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tblogherads\n\t\t\t\t\t.defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-article-mid-article-uid0' )\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.setTargeting( 'pos', [\"mid-article1\",\"mid-articleX\",\"mid\",\"mid-article\"] )\n.setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' )\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.setSubAdUnitPath(\"ros\/mid-article\")\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]])\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.setClsOptimization(\"minsize\")\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script> \t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \tBarrier is a 13-year veteran of Disney, and most recently held the position of vice president of communications for The Walt Disney Studios, leading corporate communications and playing a key role in its campaigns.<br \/> \tOther roles at Disney included serving as president of communications for consumer products, where she oversaw campaigns for <em>Frozen Fan Fest<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Star Wars: Force Friday<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Pixar Fest<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Black Panther: Welcome to Wakanda<\/em>. Before that, she held other leadership roles in the consumer products division. <br \/> \tBarrier started her career at Golin, rising to senior account supervisor before joining Disney in 2012. She holds a B.A. in communications and a minor in political science from San Diego State University.<br \/>Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day<br \/>Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter<br \/>Send us a tip using our anonymous form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxQenNUX1BTc1NudXhMeEIyXzFsTFJLX1FFRzRMMVhLY3QydzJHRFNwS2tsY3VrN2daZzJWaFgxOXR0aV9IdFlkaVlRSU5qdmZYdmNTY1pkanFjUVNVaEdNbEJrZm9FUVcyc1FDUXZnd0pWYkNkc2F1dlVLR3JTSHprb2k4RmhaYU9Vd3F0SGJLd0EwOXNQVVFxa2RybGdjZw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterShe will lead communications efforst across the company&#8217;s production banners, including Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios. By Aaron Couch Film Editor Disney veteran Erin Barrier is moving up at the company, where she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}