diff --git a/apps/rp/api/serializers.py b/apps/rp/api/serializers.py
index 501ac4584e62bb519fca4934edb60b969c3b8851..ddf4f95924e1278e16c7066513eb3dcd460d769d 100644
--- a/apps/rp/api/serializers.py
+++ b/apps/rp/api/serializers.py
@@ -1,28 +1,25 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
 
-from taggit.managers import TaggableManager
+from taggit.models import Tag
 from rp.models import Article
 
 
-class TagListSerializer(serializers.Field):
-    class Meta:
-        model = TaggableManager(blank=True)
-
-    def to_representation(self, obj):
-        if type(obj) is not list:
-            return [tag.name for tag in obj.all()]
-        return obj
+class TagListSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
+    name = serializers.CharField(max_length=200)
 
-    def to_internal_value(self, data):
-        return [tag.strip() for tag in data.split(",")]
+    class Meta:
+        model = Tag
+        fields = ('name', )
 
 
 class ArticleSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     #: List of short tags to describe the article (eg. "Privacy", "Copyright")
     tags = TagListSerializer(help_text="""
-        List of short tags to describe the article (eg."Privacy, Copyright").
-        Must be a list of tags, coma separated (or an empty string).
-        """, default="")
+        List of short tags to describe the article (eg."Privacy", "Copyright").
+        It must be a valid JSON list of items with a field named name.
+
+        For instance [{"name": "Privacy"}, {"name": "Copyright"}]
+        """, many=True, required=False)
 
     class Meta:
         model = Article
diff --git a/apps/rp/models.py b/apps/rp/models.py
index bd864af2947f9d593d79ee5c0bb17ea968f53311..efdad3d8973536b68e2d444881ea2f3fca6452e7 100644
--- a/apps/rp/models.py
+++ b/apps/rp/models.py
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ class Article(models.Model):
 
         # Let's add the tags
         if tags:
-            article.tags.add(','.join([t for t in tags if len(t) > 0]))
+            article.tags.add(','.join([t['name'] for t in tags if len(t) > 0]))
         try:
             r = requests.get(url, timeout=0.5)
             article.original_status = r.status_code
diff --git a/apps/rp/tests/test_article.py b/apps/rp/tests/test_article.py
index 5868b3c639554ea4039faf39847498569172f2f5..8d2d5ca7fdb3183bfaf567600186bc3947be1684 100644
--- a/apps/rp/tests/test_article.py
+++ b/apps/rp/tests/test_article.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ class TestArticleApi(TestCase):
                              {'url': a.url, 'title': a.title,
                               'tags': ''
                               })
-        assert [t.name for t in a.tags.all()] == r.data['tags']
+        assert [t.name for t in a.tags.all()] == [t['name'] for t in r.data['tags']]
 
     def test_api_recover(self):
         # Can we recover if we're no Jedis