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# Importing Multiple Authors

## Import a large volume of authors at once

Metrics for News can track your **authors**, your **author types** (i.e. staff, freelance, etc.), and your author **teams** (i.e. Business, Sports, etc.).

To import your authors, we will need a spreadsheet of all the authors you would like to track. If it would be significantly difficult to create a list, email [team@metricsfornews.com](mailto:team@metricsfornews.com;) to work on setting up automated author importing.

### To create your author spreadsheet:

1. Log into your Google Drive account in another tab.**\***
2. [Click this link to copy the spreadsheet template](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yF14ox8LFI0-3sPys-qxCIONG8Y7jRnjozu9BEvHdnU/copy) into your Drive. Rename the spreadsheet to include your newsroom's name.
3. In each row, enter the following information:
4. **first\_name**: the first name of the author as it appears on your site.
5. **last\_name**: the last name of the author as it appears on your site. This, combined with first\_name, will be used to identify authors.
6. **full\_byline**: the full name of the author as it appears on your site. This will be used to identify authors if first\_name and last\_name don't find any results.
7. **author\_type**: the author type, which will be associated with a level of access to Metrics for News. (i.e. staff, freelance, editor, etc.)
8. **team**: the team that the author is on. (i.e. Business, Sports, etc.). If you would like to add **multiple teams** to one author, list those teams in the same cell separated by a pipe ("|", located above the forward slash on the keyboard).
9. Change the sharing settings to be "Anyone with the link can edit". See [Google Drive Help](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494822?hl=en&ref_topic=7000947) for more information.
10. Send the completed spreadsheet link to [team@metricsfornews.com](mailto:team@metricsfornews.com;) and we'll take it from there.

**\***If you do not have access to a Google Drive account, you can [download the spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yF14ox8LFI0-3sPys-qxCIONG8Y7jRnjozu9BEvHdnU/export?format=csv) and open it in Microsoft Excel or the spreadsheet software of your choice.

 

 

 

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