Richard Severo, a prizewinning reporter for The New York Times whose challenge to what he considered a punitive transfer by the newspaper’s management became a cause célèbre among journalists in the 1980s, died on June 12 at his home in Balmville, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley. He was 90.
His wife, Emóke Edith de Papp, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Over his Times career, from 1968 to 2006, Mr. Severo won a coveted…