Adding rows to my news table

addNewsArticle.py

def addNewsArticle(companyModel,newsSourceModel,url):
    tree = html.fromstring(requests.get(url).text)
    
    # Need the article title
    title = tree.xpath('//h1/text()')[0]

    # Need the text of the article
    textElements = tree.xpath("//*[@id='articleText']//*/text()")
    text = ""
    for t in textElements:
        text += t

    # Need the date field
    dateText = tree.xpath("//div[@id='articleInfo']//span[@class='timestamp']/text()")[0]
    date = datetime.datetime.strptime(dateText[:-4], "%a %b %d, %Y %I:%M%p").date()

    News.create(
        company=companyModel,
        newsSource=newsSourceModel,
        title=title,
        text=text,
        url=url,
        date = date
    )
    print "Added: "+title