diff --git a/recipes/nytimes.recipe b/recipes/nytimes.recipe
index 4974e4fc81..ba4e680158 100644
--- a/recipes/nytimes.recipe
+++ b/recipes/nytimes.recipe
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
         from contextlib import closing
         import copy
         from calibre.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
-        print("ARTICLE_TO_SOUP "+url_or_raw)
         if re.match(r'\w+://', url_or_raw):
             br = self.clone_browser(self.browser)
             open_func = getattr(br, 'open_novisit', br.open)
diff --git a/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe b/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
index 4d7032f3f3..023a787983 100644
--- a/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
+++ b/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
         from contextlib import closing
         import copy
         from calibre.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
-        print("ARTICLE_TO_SOUP "+url_or_raw)
         if re.match(r'\w+://', url_or_raw):
             br = self.clone_browser(self.browser)
             open_func = getattr(br, 'open_novisit', br.open)