WP6 focuses on examining how different actors manipulate legacy and digital media to promote political corruption. The objectives are to analyze how corrupt actors influence traditional media within national contexts and explore the new practices they employ through social media. The WP also aims to develop and test policy solutions to counter media-based corruption. The first task involves creating a compendium of methods for media capture, based on academic literature and case studies, which will describe how corrupt actors manipulate media to further their interests. This compendium will then inform the creation of a dataset detailing media capture risks and indicators in various European countries. Another task will explore how media capture impacts the production of information by comparing coverage of politically sensitive events across outlets in high- and low-risk environments, using content analysis and local expertise. Finally, the WP will identify conditions that either enable or limit the corrupting effect of media capture by testing various institutional factors, including electoral competition and bureaucratic independence, to assess their role in mitigating corrupt media practices.