Mercury Prize £25,000. The winner also receives an additional winner's trophy. To date, PJ Harvey is the only artist to have won the award on more than one occasion (in 2001 and 2011). She was also the first female solo artist to receive the award. Alex Turner has received five nominations as a member of Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets, winning once. Thom Yorke has 6 nominations, 5 with Radiohead and one for "The Eraser", but has never won. The Mercury Prize can have a considerable effect on sales for those artists who are shortlisted. Elbow saw a 700% sales
The Mercury News sustained the newspaper's business operations. Additionally, newspapers across the industry faced serious competition to their job listings from websites such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder, and Craigslist. Knight Ridder instituted several rounds of layoffs at its papers, prompting Harris to resign as publisher in 2001. Cost-cutting began affecting the initiatives the paper had started in the 1990s. In June 2005, the "Mercury News" closed its Hanoi bureau. On October 21, it also announced the closure of and sale of "Viet Mercury" to a group of Vietnamese-American businessmen. However, the deal fell through, and "Viet Mercury" published its final issue on November 11,