Ben Urich

"In my experience, there are no heroes, no villains. Just people with different agendas."

- Ben Urich

Ben Urich was an investigative journalist at the New York Bulletin.

Reporter
Urich worked for the New York Bulletin, his most notable stories were about the Hulk's Duel of Harlem and the Battle of New York. He took the most pride in exposing organised crime in Hell's Kitchen, through his stories he was able to bring several gangsters to jail as well as destroying crime rings.

His wife Doris was hospitalized with a debilitating chronic life threatening illness with some occasional symptoms of idiosyncratic impaired cognition. Due to his wife's need for constant care, Urich dedicated much of his time and money ensuring she got the best treatment possible. Urich was often advised to consider moving her into a nursing home due to her depleting mental state.

Last Story
Urich met with his contact in the mafia, Silvio, to discuss the recent criminal activities in Hell's Kitchen. Silvo claimed the previous head mobster had been murdered and there was a new criminal leader, only nobody knew who it was and what they were planning. Silvo made it clear that the reason he had given Urich the information was that when the newspapers wrote articles exposing his mob, Urich was the only one who did not mention Silvo's family in his article.

Back in his office, Urich was approached by his boss Ellison who suggested that he stop writing stories about gang violence and consider moving to another department and write about social events, Urich refused. He later when to visit his wife in the hospital, there he pleaded with the head nurse to extend his wife's stay at the hospital, she begrudgingly agreed to do what she could to help, as a thank you Urich left her her favourite sandwich. After staying with his wife for a short time, Urich returned to his office where he was visited by Karen Page, who asked for his help in exposing a criminal empire working in Hell's Kitchen.

Urich and Page met for coffee to discuss the case, which involved Union Allied Construction, the company which had previously attempted to assassinate Page after she had discovered a money laundering scheme, now trying to discreetly rebuild itself. Urich suggested that Page should forget about the case as it was too dangerous, when she argued that Urich had taken on other cases similar to this he told her that he was now too old and too smart to continue digging into such stories. Urich did however continue digging into the case and discovered Karen Page at an auction for Union Allied Construction's office equipment. Urich advised her to bid on something so to not draw unwanted attention to herself. He later explained to her that while he still wanted her to stop looking into the case, he was planning on exposing it.

Family

 * Doris Urich - Wife

Allies

 * New York Bulletin
 * Ellison - Former Boss
 * Nelson and Murdock
 * Karen Page
 * Foggy Nelson
 * Matt Murdock
 * Marlene Vistain
 * Daredevil
 * Silvio - Contact

Enemies

 * Wilson Fisk - Killer

Trivia

 * In the comics, Ben Urich works for the Daily Bugle, a newspaper which has been mainly associated with the Spider-Man comics, as it has been Peter Parker's workplace as well. Since the show was created before the deal between Marvel and Sony, when the film rights of the Spider-Man comics belonged exclusively to Sony, Urich's employment had to be changed.