Richard L. Frey, the American Contract Bridge League publications director, recruited Truscott to help edit the ACBL's membership magazine and its "Official Encyclopedia of Bridge", whose first edition was underway. Truscott moved to New York City, then the ACBL headquarters, and succeeded Albert Morehead as bridge editor of "The New York Times" 1 January 1964. Truscott wrote a bridge column for "The New York Times" daily until March 1994, and then three times a week until April 2005, when he retired due to poor health, for a total of some 12,750 columns.