Abstract: Based on the background of the Internet era, this paper analyzes the challenges and new characteristics of the university journals. It is believed that as long as we build an editorial team to adapt to the new publishing environment, it can make the challenge a development opportunity. At the same time, according to the competence theory, this paper analyzes the ability of the editors in the journal editors of the Internet era, including the ability of re-learning, the full integration ability of the editors, the creation ability of the innovation, the ability of social activities and the ability of the object service, and gives some suggestions on how to improve these abilities.