diff --git a/apps/news/migrations/0037_auto_20191129_1320.py b/apps/news/migrations/0037_auto_20191129_1320.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..91c9a898
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/news/migrations/0037_auto_20191129_1320.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.2.7 on 2019-11-29 13:20
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('news', '0036_news_site'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='news',
+            name='start',
+            field=models.DateTimeField(blank=True, default=None, null=True, verbose_name='Start'),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/apps/news/models.py b/apps/news/models.py
index 2aa571c0..30e4206b 100644
--- a/apps/news/models.py
+++ b/apps/news/models.py
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ class News(GalleryModelMixin, BaseAttributes, TranslatedFieldsMixin, HasTagsMixi
     description = TJSONField(blank=True, null=True, default=None,
                              verbose_name=_('description'),
                              help_text='{"en-GB":"some text"}')
-    start = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name=_('Start'))
+    start = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, default=None,
+                                 verbose_name=_('Start'))
     end = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, default=None,
                                verbose_name=_('End'))
     slug = models.SlugField(unique=True, max_length=255,