@StacyPoulos -- Exporting information from an express map or map tour is not supported. These are meant to be simple storytelling resources rather than data sources, so at this time we have no plans to build typical GIS tools to manipulate the content. (We are amending the FAQ here to explicitly mention map tours in our next update.)
You may be able to use the ArcGIS Assistant to inspect the draft.json resource of your story and manually extract the location data.
For the second question, there isn't a template because you can choose any fields in your feature service to serve as the title and description for your tour places.
Can I ask why you are choosing to manage your data in a feature service instead of building it directly in the story builder? The feature service option for building a tour is mainly intended for the situation where you have a feature service that was or is being generated by another ArcGIS app like Survey123, QuickCapture, or Field Maps.
We are currently doing a research project on how people are using map tours, so we'd love to hear more about what your expectations are and why you are making certain choices for how to build your tour. Please share any additional information or feedback that you think would be helpful.
Owen Evans
Lead Product Engineer | StoryMaps