diff --git a/test/test_InfoExtractor.py b/test/test_InfoExtractor.py
index 8b367ffff..4f881eb4b 100644
--- a/test/test_InfoExtractor.py
+++ b/test/test_InfoExtractor.py
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ def test_search_json_ld_realworld(self):
                     'title': 'md5:3f077843a74f01f768bbf0853c210855',
                     'categories': ['Reportages'],
                     'creators': ['Sabine Dupont'],
-                    'description': 'md5:40eaf402631e0a77d8d74f66574bb978',
+                    'description': 'md5:1dc04a3aa56c5228503071baa8b4cc97',
                     'modified_timestamp': 1747319520,
                     'release_timestamp': 1747319520,
                     'tags': 'count:1',
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index e2ed97ea6..5fde840e5 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -1743,19 +1743,19 @@ def traverse_json_ld(json_ld, at_top_level=True):
                     })
                 elif is_type(e, 'Article', 'NewsArticle'):
                     info.update(**traverse_obj(e, {
-                        'title': ('headline', {str}, {unescapeHTML}),
-                        'alt_title': ('alternativeHeadline', {str}, {unescapeHTML}),
-                        'categories': ('articleSection', {str}, {unescapeHTML}, filter, all, filter),
-                        'creators': ('author', (None, 'name'), {str}, {unescapeHTML}, filter, all, filter),
-                        'description': (('description', 'articleBody'), {str}, {unescapeHTML}, any),
+                        'title': ('headline', {clean_html}, filter),
+                        'alt_title': ('alternativeHeadline', {clean_html}, filter),
+                        'categories': ('articleSection', {clean_html}, filter, all, filter),
+                        'creators': ('author', (None, 'name'), {clean_html}, filter, all, filter),
+                        'description': (('description', 'articleBody'), {clean_html}, filter, any),
                         'modified_timestamp': ('dateModified', {parse_iso8601}),
                         'release_timestamp': ('datePublished', {parse_iso8601}),
-                        'tags': ('keywords', {str}, {unescapeHTML}, {lambda x: x.split(',')}, filter),
+                        'tags': ('keywords', {clean_html}, {lambda x: x.split(',')}, ..., {str.strip}, filter, all, filter),
                         'thumbnails': ('image', ..., {
                             'url': ({str}, {unescapeHTML}, {self._proto_relative_url}, {url_or_none}),
                         }),
                         'timestamp': ('dateCreated', {parse_iso8601}),
-                        'uploader': ('publisher', 'name', {str}, {unescapeHTML}),
+                        'uploader': ('publisher', 'name', {clean_html}, filter),
                     }))
                     if is_type(traverse_obj(e, ('video', 0)), 'VideoObject'):
                         extract_video_object(e['video'][0])