Columbia School of Journalism (MS) Thomas Vinciguerra (October 8, 1963 – February 22, 2021) was an American journalist, editor, and author.

A founding editor of The Week magazine, he published about popular culture, nostalgia and other subjects in The New York Times,[1][2] The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and GQ.

While at the Journalism School he refounded the Philolexian Society, Columbia's oldest student organization; he was subsequently designated its "Avatar."

[1] Vinciguerra was editor of Conversations with Elie Wiesel (Schocken, 2001) and Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker (Bloomsbury, 2011).

[18] His newspaper writings on popular culture covered a variety of topics, with frequent articles on both Star Trek[19][20][21][22][23][24] and James Bond.