Yep, in the first page of the indictment Durham lays out the purpose of the conspiracy and also the successful achievement of the conspiracies purpose, both of which are keys for conspiracy charges. There was the NYT in Oct 2016 running an article about Trump having secret back channels to a Russian bank. All throughout the indictment Durham points out the media's implementation of the narrative and how that was used to launch an FBI investigation with Sussman being at the center of it all.