diff --git a/ext/opentelemetry-ext-jaeger/README.rst b/ext/opentelemetry-ext-jaeger/README.rst
index 04f7c4082b5..6813fbdeee8 100644
--- a/ext/opentelemetry-ext-jaeger/README.rst
+++ b/ext/opentelemetry-ext-jaeger/README.rst
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ gRPC is still not supported by this implementation.
     span_processor = BatchExportSpanProcessor(jaeger_exporter)
 
     # add to the tracer
-    tracer.add_span_processor(span_processor)
+    trace.tracer_provider().add_span_processor(span_processor)
 
     with tracer.start_as_current_span('foo'):
         print('Hello world!')