diff --git a/newspaper/mthreading.py b/newspaper/mthreading.py
index 92ebfb29..5a969df0 100644
--- a/newspaper/mthreading.py
+++ b/newspaper/mthreading.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 
 from .configuration import Configuration
 
-
 class Worker(Thread):
     """
     Thread executing tasks from a given tasks queue.
@@ -105,4 +104,7 @@ def set(self, paper_list, threads_per_source=1):
         self.pool = ThreadPool(num_threads, timeout)
 
         for paper in self.papers:
-            self.pool.add_task(paper.download_articles)
+            try:
+                self.pool.add_task(paper.download_articles)
+            except AttributeError:
+                self.pool.add_task(paper.download)