Both make sense! Just depends on if you're talking about one particular story or multiple stories.

Both are correct and natural. I suggest “to get a story” which matches the sense of your two sentences.

To me #1 sounds more natural. But, both are correct.

Hey mona it's a great pleasure to connect, both statements mentioned above are grammatically connect but I would rather suggest u to use "extend" instead of length because the respective word seems more appropriate in that specific context hope it helps Thankyou

Here is how I would write it: Some journalists go through extreme lengths to get their narrative.