diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry-Exporters/OTSpanExporter.class.st b/src/OpenTelemetry-Exporters/OTSpanExporter.class.st
index d1d787b..14451c2 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry-Exporters/OTSpanExporter.class.st
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry-Exporters/OTSpanExporter.class.st
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ OTSpanExporter class >> current: aSpanExporter [
 { #category : 'instance creation' }
 OTSpanExporter class >> defaultFileExporter [
 
-	^ OTFileSpanExporter new
+	^ OTJSONFileSpanExporter new
 ]
 
 { #category : 'instance creation' }