Emailing photos for newspaper print - Need 300 dpi

I have read so many different articles on this and am still confused.
I have pictures in iPhoto '09 that, whatever way I export or email them, the Image dpi ends up at 72.
The paper is insisting on 300 dpi. Is it 72 because of how the camera was set and I'm out of luck, or
is there some way of exporting them that I can effect that change to 300?
Thank you!

DPI is Dots Per Inch. Therefore you need inches to knoe DPI
If the photo is to be printed as a 4x6 print then you need a 1200 (4*300) x 1800 (6*300) pixel image
DPI has no meaning within iPhoto. It is a mathematical calculation dividing dots (pixels) by inches
LN

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