Although it is accepted by the public, the claim that Wang Tao was the author of Universal Circulating Herald ’s editorials is not correct. The number of existing editorials is about 2090. In fact, these include five types of editorials: essays, translations, contribution, reprinted manuscripts, and transcribed manuscript. As the editor in chief, Wang Tao composed most of the editorial essays during the first year of the newspaper’s publication. At that time, his son-in-law, Qian Zheng, also participated these events. Since then, most of the editorials that Universal Circulating Herald published had been written by Hong Shiwei, who replaced Wang Tao in editorshipuntil Wang Tao left Hong Kong for Shanghai and settled down in 1884. Universal Circulating Herald also transcribed the editorial published by The Shun Pao and The Hu Pao from Shanghai and The Chung-hsi Hui Pao from San Francisco. It translated and published articles from the West. Many contributions, whether they were signed with true names or pen names or even without a signature, were also published by Universal Circulating Herald. The diversity of the composition and sources of Universal Circulating Herald’ s editorials reveal the complexity of their authors.