diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index 981ac426a..964ec1c36 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ CONFIG_SECTION_ORDER = ["paths", "variables", "system", "nlp", "components", "co
 # fmt: on
 
 
-logging.basicConfig(format="%(message)s")
 logger = logging.getLogger("spacy")
+logger_stream_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+logger_stream_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(message)s'))
+logger.addHandler(logger_stream_handler)
 
 
 class ENV_VARS: