DETROIT — If you are a person of a certain age it’s odd to drive down a major artery in a large metropolitan American city and strain to find a newspaper box at any of the crossroads.

That’s especially true in a city such as Detroit, with a storied history of competitive journalism that dug deep into holding power in check, whether it was city hall, the unions or large corporations.

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