diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index 30b346a1f1..6303efd632 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -1710,7 +1710,7 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
         Convenience method to take a
         `BeautifulSoup <https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/>`_
         `Tag` and extract the text from it recursively, including any CDATA sections
-        and alt tag attributes. Return a possibly empty unicode string.
+        and alt tag attributes. Return a possibly empty Unicode string.
 
         `use_alt`: If `True` try to use the alt attribute for tags that don't
         have any textual content